[3][2] According to Doğan Kuban, the mosque's present appearance today owes much to Mahmud II's renovation, and some elements of the complex were added in the Empire style that was introduced during his reign.

The imperial apartment (or at least a part of it) existed in the original mosque design, but Kuban believes it may have been modified by Mahmud II as well.

[10] Scholar Ünver Rüstem, in a recent study of Ottoman Baroque architecture, discusses this imperial pavilion as part of the original mosque.

[5] Like most imperial Ottoman mosques, it was accompanied by other facilities and annexes, including a hammam (bathhouse), primary school and two fountains, which were built under Abdülhamid I.

[8] On top of it is the sultan's loge (hünkâr mahfili), which has a Baroque style but also features a naturalistic landscape painting on its back wall which probably dates from the 19th century.

[14] The entrance gallery is supported by marble columns with Corinthian-like capitals that imitate those seen in monuments from the reign of Mahmud I (r. 1730–1754), at the beginning of the Baroque period.