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Yusuf Şucaeddin Camii Çeşmesi

Fatih, Italy

Yusuf Şucaeddin Camii Çeşmesi

Yusuf Şucaeddin Mosque Fountain or Balat Fountain (Turkish: Balat Çeşmesi) is an Ottoman period fountain in the Ayvansaray neighborhood of Istanbul's Fatih district. After the Golden Horn coastal road works in the 1980s, it remained in the garden of Yusuf Şucaeddin Mosque. It is made of cut limeston

e and has a hexagonal shape. It has a large reservoir and a fountain on each of its four sides. It is covered with lead. There is a marble slab in place of the mirror stone. Only one fountain has water flowing.

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