Yahyapasa-oglu mehmed Pasha's evkaf in Belgrade

Aleksandar, F. (2001) Yahyapasa-oglu mehmed Pasha's evkaf in Belgrade. Acta Orientalia, 54 (4). pp. 437-452. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

It was to Yahyapasa-oglu Mehmed Pasha, sancakbeyi of Semendire (1527-1534, 1536-1543, 1548-1550?) and pasa of Buda (1543-1548), that Ottoman Belgrade owed the erection of one of the biggest and most versatelite vakifs, which srtongly affected the growth of the city's new urban structure. Mehmed Pasha's evkaf in Belgrade consisted of a mosque, a mekteb, a medrese, an 'imaret, a karvansaray, a sebil, a cesme, and Mohamed Pasha türbe (mausoleum), all constituting a well-structured architectural complex. Bexond the complex, it also included a musalla, a tekke, and shops and lots of market place. By 1548 most of the structure had already been built, and they lasted till 1688. The state assisted in providing for the evkaf by granting Mehmed Pasha the full ownership (mülk) of large number of vacant lots in the city, a few nearbly villages, and subsequently, some estates in the sancak of Požega. The study of the compositiopn and functioning of Mehmed Pasha's Belgrade evkaf indeed confirms the assumptions about a well throught out state policy as regards the development of the urban structure of major Ottoman communities.

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