Guide
This small tomb stands on Camii Kebir Street in Eyüp, to the right of the Siyavuş Paşa tomb and across from the tomb of Sokollu Mehmed Paşa — in fact it was built inside Siyavuş Paşa's courtyard. It is square, carries a single dome, and has no inscription. The style is Empire, and the source names the Italian architect Fossati; it was put up on the order of Abdülhamid II.
Three wooden sarcophagi stand inside. One holds Şeyhülislam Ahmed Esad Efendi, born in 1813, the son of the scholar Mehmed Esad Efendi. He served as judge in the districts of Eyüp and Üsküdar, was raised to the office of şeyhülislam on 4 December 1878 when Ahmed Muhtar Efendi left it, held the post for more than ten years and died in 1889. He built a small mosque beside his waterside house at Nakkaş, between Kuzguncuk and Beylerbeyi.
A single block of marble in front of the tomb once served as its fountain. It was moved in 1957 to the wall of the burial ground a little further on, and it carries neither inscription nor date.
