According to the 17th-century Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi, the district takes its name from the town of Çarşamba on the Black Sea coast since, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, this part of the city was repopulated with people from Çarşamba.

[1] However, others think it acquired its name from the large Wednesday (Çarşamba in Turkish) Market held here every week.

The mosque is usually attributed to Mimar Sinan although there is no record of it in the official list of his works.

it was a favourite with the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier who admired its simplicity of form.

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