The Fifth and Sixth Hills - Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City - page 268

a cruciform hararet with cubicles in the corners of the cross, but
the lower arm of the cross has been cut of and turned into a small
soğukluk which leads through the right-hand cubicle into the hararet;
in the cubicles are very small private washrooms separated from each
other by low marble partitions - a quite unique disposition. As far
as one can judge from the outside, the women's section seems to be a
duplicate of the men's.
LIBRARY OF MURAT MOLLA
Returning once again to the avenue, which here changes its name to
Manyasizade Caddesi, we continue along in the same direction and
take the next left. A short way along to the right we see the fine library
of Murat Molla. Damatzade Murat Molla was a judge and scholar
of the eighteenth century who founded a tekke, now destroyed, to
which he later (1775) added a library that still stands in an extensive
and very pretty walled garden. The library is a large square building
of brick and stone supported by four columns with re-used Byzantine
capitals - the whole edifice indeed is built on Byzantine substructures,
fragments of which may be seen in the garden. The corners of the
room also have domes with barrel vaults between them. In short, it
is a very typical and very attractive example of an eighteenth-century
Ottoman library, to be compared with those of Atif Efendi, Ragıp
Paşa and others of the same period. Like these, it is constantly in
use.
ISMAİL EFENDİ CAMİİ
We now return to Manyasizade Caddesi and at the next corner on the
left we come to Ismail Efendi Camii. This is a quaint and entertaining
example of a building in a transitional style between the classical and
the baroque. It was built by the Şeyh-ül Islam Ismail Efendi in 1724.
The vaulted substructure contains shops with the mosque above
them, so constructed, according to the Hadika, in order to resemble
the Kaaba at Mecca! We enter the courtyard through a gate above
which is a very characteristic sibyan mektebi of one room. To the
right a long double staircase leads up to the mosque, the porch of
which has been tastelessly reconstructed in detail (e.g., the capitals of