Takkeci Ibrahim Aga Mosque Istanbul

A short walk from Topkapi and across the park that will bring you to Istanbul’s only wooden mosque that has managed to keep most of its original form, possibly because of its location away from the city centre and avoiding the many fires that occurred there.  The mosque dates from 1591 and was commissioned by a craftsman that made skullcaps (“takkes”), it has an excellent selection of Iznik tiles and its best feature is the wooden ceiling of the internal dome which has been fully restored.