and may closely resemble the original. The graveyard also contains the last resting places of many important state officials, including field marshal Gazi Osman Pasha whose tomb was designed by Kemaleddin Bey. The distinguished Ottoman scholar and university professor Halil İnalcık was buried here in 2016. On one side of the mosque and connected to it is the domed Carullah Efendi Library which was built in 1724. One of its doors opens onto the street, while the other two open onto the inner courtyard of the mosque. The library is undergoing repairs, and the books are under protection at the Suleymaniye Library. The caravanserai was repaired in the 1980s and combined with new shops to begin functioning as a workplace. The hospital, market, kitchens and hamam of the original complex have been lost. Influences According to the Turkish historian Mehmet Aga-Oglu, the mosque is a representation of Islamic Persian medresse architecture and not Byzantine church architecture. This opinion is supported by other Turkish academics that state Ottoman architecture is an extension of "Near Eastern architectural tradition". See also List of mosques Ottoman architecture Notes References External links Images of the Fatih Mosque Fatih Camii (Turkish) Over 90 pictures of the mosque and tombs Mosques completed in 1470 Ottoman mosques in Istanbul Mosques completed in 1767 Mosque buildings with domes Fatih Buildings of Mehmed the Conqueror 1767 establishments in the Ottoman Empire 1470s establishments in the Ottoman Empire Sunni mosques in Turkey