The tomb stands on Feshane Caddesi with cemeteries on both sides: the tombs of Mehmed Vusuli Efendi and Hubbi Hatun to its right, the Zal Mahmud Paşa medrese and mosque to its left.
It is square in plan, built very regularly in three courses of brick to one of cut stone, with two tiers of windows and a wooden roof; it was restored in 1957. A verse is carved over the marble-framed arched door, and a grilled prayer window opens onto the street. Inside there is a single grave.
Who lies in it has been argued over. A later inscription names Karabaş Ahmed Efendi; the seventeenth-century Hadîka places Pir Ahmed Edirnevi here and links him to one chain of the Bayramiye order, while the compiler of the Eyüpsultan municipality's page says his own research points to another. The date of death given is 1592.
Behind the tomb, at the far end of the garden, stands the tomb of Nakkaş Hasan Paşa. Pir Ahmed is remembered for more than his grave: a hymn of his, which survives incomplete, was sung to its own melody in every dervish lodge until the lodges were closed. The verse over the tomb door was written by Hâmid.
The small burial grounds on either side hold stones that read like a short history of the neighbourhood. On the right lies Cafer Efendi, a chief judge of Anatolia and son of Abdünnebi Efendi — uncle of the şeyhülislam Ebussuud — who died in 1577 in his garden at Üsküdar on his way back from the pilgrimage; nearby are an imam of the Zal Paşa mosque and tanners of the eighteenth century, from the tannery that once faced this ground. On the left, behind the large prayer window, lies Yahya Bey, steward to the grand vizier Hüsrev Paşa, who died in 1841.
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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).
