[1] The mosque stands astride Çamlıca Hill in the Üsküdar district of Istanbul and is visible from much of the centre of the city.

Planning for the Çamlıca Mosque began in the year 2000 and was led by two female architects, Bahar Mızrak and Hayriye Gül Totu.

In 2022, work was under way to add a spur to the M5 Metro line from Üsküdar to include a stop at the Çamlıca Mosque.

It was supposedly designed to rival Sinan's famous Suleymaniye Mosque, across the Bosphorus on the European side of Istanbul.

[8] Ergin Külünk, president of the mosque’s construction association, has noted the designers’ use of "light, colour, glass, ornamentation and calligraphy" to make people feel “more spiritual” within the space.

[8] Çamlıca Mosque features a museum, underground parking with space for 3,500 vehicles, an art gallery, library, conference hall, and childcare facilities.

[12] As one of several megaprojects embarked on by the ruling AK Party in the second half of the 2010s, the Çamlıca Mosque attracted a great deal of attention, as often negative as positive.

[citation needed] Namo Abdulla of Rudaw, a Kurdish media network, claimed that its construction is against the principle of secularism in Turkey.