The Rüstem Paşa Camii

Built on a steep hill in the middle of a bustling market area, the Rüstem Paşa Camii is yet another masterpiece from the ubiquitous master architect Mimar Sinan. If you weren’t carefully looking for the entrance, you would almost certainly miss it: just a narrow set of nondescript stairs leading up from the street. So ascending these steps and emerging into the mosque’s spacious courtyard is quite the surprise.

And the surprises continue as you enter the mosque. The Rüstem Paşa is famed for it...