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A view of interior Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha Mosque and muqarnas classic rococo handmade Mihrab. Two columns of the altar (mihrab), filled with both relief and is decorated in shades of light brown. There is a crown of roses in the middle of the altar located on the two sides Eşref-i Qadiri. It is written an Ayetül Kürsi verse on the Kütahya Tiles that surround the altar on the right-to-left line.
Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha (1689–1758) was an Ottoman grand vizier . His father Nuh was a Venetian convert who worked in Şehr-i İstanbul as a doctor and his mother Safiye was a Turk. His epithet Hekimoğlu means son of doctor. He served Ottoman Empire three times in different periods. His third term was very short and dramatic (16 February 1755 – 19 May 1755). The new sultan Osman III was under the influence of the palace people. When Ali Pasha refused to obey the sultan's order to execute a young prince (Turkish: Şehzade) the sultan jailed him. He barely escaped being executed by the intercession of Şehsuvar Valide Sultan. After being jailed in Kızkulesi (Maidens' Tower) in Şehr-i İstanbul, he was expelled to Magosa (in Cyprus Island) and Rhodes Island (in Greece) . Although he was given pardon in 1757, he died in Kütahya Province (Western Anatolia, Turkey).
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