The Haseki Sultan Complex in Istanbul was designed by Mimar Sinan, in what the article calls his first imperial project, for Haseki Hürrem Sultan, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, who probably financed it with her dowry. The infobox and text agree on dates: the mosque in 1538 to 1539, the madrasa in 1539 to 1540, the soup kitchen in 1540 to 1541 and the hospital in 1550 to 1551.
The article calls the style Ottoman. The mosque uses alternating courses of stone and brick, with a portico of six thin marble columns, and the hospital is the only ashlar building. The madrasa and soup kitchen have cuerda seca tilework. The original prayer hall dome had an inner diameter of 37 feet (11.3 m).
Ahmed I enlarged the mosque in 1612 to 1613 with a second dome and a prayer hall about twice its size. The complex was restored from 2010 to 2012. The article gives no hours.
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