One of Üsküdar's best-known landmarks, it takes its alternative name from the ferry terminal near which it stands.

Before the coast road was built, the mosque would have stood right beside the water, accessible by boat.

[2] The large mosque stands on a raised platform with a broad double portico that contains a fine marble ablutions fountain.

The architecture features several hallmarks of Mimar Sinan's mature style[citation needed]: a spacious, high-vaulted basement, slender minarets and a single-domed baldacchino flanked by three semi-domes ending in three exedrae.

The exterior is composed of ashlar, a thin dressed stone of gray to cream color.