The tomb stands where Feshane Caddesi meets Kızıldeğirmen Sokak. It is octagonal, in well-cut stone, its dome set on an eight-sided drum, and it takes light from two tiers of windows. There is no inscription; inside is a single wooden cenotaph, and the interior decoration has been lost.
Hubbi Hatun — the name means beloved — was the granddaughter of Yahya Efendi and became a companion of Selim II after her first husband died on the pilgrimage road in 1551. She held considerable influence at court and was later married to Molla Mehmed Vusuli Efendi, whose own tomb stands beside hers.
She wrote: ghazels, kasides and a manuscript of some three thousand couplets called Hurşid ü Cemşid. The building has no builder's inscription; the municipality suggests it must be Sinan's work.
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- Across İstanbul as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.8 °C in January to 24.7 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (99 mm) and lightest in July (22 mm). Long-term means for 1950-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
