Mihrişah Sultan Complex

[1][2][3] The rest of the complex is also notable for the founder's mausoleum and for its ornate street-facing sebil, all built in the Ottoman Baroque style.

Selim III's reign (1789–1807) saw renewed Ottoman dynastic interest in this area, as he was responsible for rebuilding the Eyüp Sultan Mosque between 1798 and 1800.

[5][6] The complex consists of a large imaret (soup kitchen) and a mektep (primary school), but from the street its most visible elements are a sebil and Mihrişah Sultan's mausoleum.

The imaret consists of a large U-shaped building with a garden courtyard in the center, entered via a monumental gate from the street.

Its exterior façade is divided into twelve convex sections, each containing two windows (one above, one below) and bordered by engaged columns.

The ornamentation diverges further from traditional Ottoman decoration in the shape of its arches and in the three-dimensional sculpting of shells and shell-like leaves.

The sebil (center), flanked by two wall fountains