Kemankeş Kara Mustafa Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: ﻛﻤﺎﻧﻜﺶ قره مصطفى پاشا, lit.

Murad IV died on 9 February 1640, and Kemankeş Mustafa continued as a Grand Vizier during Ibrahim's reign.

Ibrahim was a weak sultan, and Kemankeş Mustafa became the de facto ruler of the empire.

According to architectural historian Semavi Eyice, the original church, a Byzantine one, was probably the Monastery of Philanthropos[7] but was converted to the Latin cult and renamed Santa Maria di Constantinopoli during the reign of Mehmed II.

The site of the mosque was previously occupied by the Genoese Saint Antonio Church, which was appropriated in 1606 and demolished thereafter.