The Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque, also called Sünbül Efendi Camii, is a former Eastern Orthodox church in Istanbul's Fatih district, dedicated to Saint Andrew of Crete. The article says the monastery was founded in the early fifth century by Princess Arcadia. Basil I rebuilt it in the late ninth century, and Princess Theodora Raoulaina rebuilt it around 1284. Between 1486 and 1491, Koca Mustafa Pasha converted the church into a mosque. The article names no architect.
The infobox gives the style as Byzantine, though the text calls the exterior clearly Ottoman. The building is an ambulatory type with a central dome, three apses and narthexes, in dressed stone under a lead roof. An earthquake in 1766 destroyed the dome, rebuilt in 1768. The building was restored in 1953.
The infobox dates completion to 1284 and groundbreaking to the sixth century, which conflicts with the text's fifth-century foundation.
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