Guide
This is a tomb for two households at once. It stands north of the Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa mosque on the street that bears the same name, rectangular in plan and covered by two domes carried on squinches under high octagonal drums outside. Inside, a single wide pointed arch joins the two spaces: the western one was made for Abdal Yâkub and Şeyh İbrâhim and the other leading figures of the dervish lodge here, the eastern one for Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa, his wife Muhsine Hatun and their family.
The north front facing the street is faced in marble to a certain height; the east front, its corner chamfered, is cut küfeki stone, and the remaining walls are laid in alternating courses of stone and brick. The wooden canopy on the courtyard side was lost in the fire of 1918 and has been rebuilt in recent years on four wooden columns with round-arched openings and a tiled roof. The door, set off-centre to the left, is round-arched beneath a pointed brick relieving arch, with a four-line marble inscription in talik on the tympanum above it. Windows are set one on each side of the door and one in the west wall, four in the north wall, and four in each drum placed to fall over the corners of the building.
The windows on the street front are worth stopping for: their metal grilles are worked in plant compositions with unusual care, and their tympana carry openwork inscriptions. Higher up on that front, between two windows of the domed bay holding Ali Paşa's grave, is a three-couplet inscription by the poet Hıfzî in talik, dated 1758, and above the marble facing runs a lead-covered wooden eave taken through in one design with the sebil next door.
That sebil, at the corner where the courtyard gate meets the tomb, is the finest piece of work in the complex: five projecting rounded faces, six marble columns with muqarnas capitals of which two are engaged, five windows under lobed ogee arches, metal grilles in plant compositions arranged as six adjoining borders each finishing in a small fluted cupola with a finial, and a water outlet beneath each. A metal inscription in talik runs above the grilles, one couplet to each face.
