Sultan Mustafa III commissioned the mosque as his imperial mosque. Construction began on April 5, 1760 and ended on March 9, 1764, and the infobox gives 1783, the year of a full restoration after the 1766 earthquake and possibly a fire. Art historians attribute the design to Mehmed Tahir Agha, though documentation does not confirm the architect.
The style is Ottoman Baroque, and the plan follows the earlier Selimiye Mosque in Edirne at the sultan's request. An octagonal interior sits within a rectangle. The dome is 41 feet (12.5 m) across and 80 feet (24.5 m) high, on an octagonal drum of eight arches, with two minarets flanking the courtyard. The walls use colored marble with onyx and jasper medallions.
The complex included Mustafa III's tomb, which also holds Selim III, the Büyük Yeni Han that provided revenue, a sebil and a madrasa that burned in 1911. The article gives no visiting information.
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