SECTION XXIV.
Of the principal Palaces of Constantinople.
One of the grandest of these is that of Ibráhím Páshá, the Vezír of Sultán Soleïmán, on the At-maidán, in which two thousand pages of the seráï were formerly educated. It is next in point of magnitude to the imperial seráï. The Seráï of Mehrmáh, near the mosque of Sultán Báyazíd, consists of seven hundred separate apartments. But even larger than this is the seráï of Siyávush Páshá, to the north of the mosque of Sultán Soleïmán, which has three hundred rooms, seven baths, fifty shops, and stables more extensive than those of the imperial palace. The others are: the seráï of the ághá of the Janissaries, near the mosque of Sultán Soleïmán; the seráï of Tekelí Mustafá Páshá; of Dallák Mustafá Páshá; of the Defterdár (who was hanged) Mustafá Páshá, near the Soleïmániyeh; of Pertev Páshá at the Vafá; of Sevgelún Moslí Sultáneh, within the corn-market; of Perinjí Zádeh, at Zírekbáshí; of Korshúnlí Sultáneh, in the same place; of Moralí Mustafá Páshá, near the place of the Ajemoghláns; of Kapújí Murád Páshá, near the ink-makers’ row; of Silihdár Mustafá Páshá, near the mosque of Soleïmán; of Khoájeh Vezír Mohammed Páshá, near the mosque of the Sháhzádeh; of Kana’án Páshá, near the old Seráï; of Músá Páshá, near Khoájeh Páshá; of Kara Mustáfá Páshá, near Ak-Seráï; of Sokollí Mohammed Páshá, near the Aláï Koshk; of Melek Ahmed Páshá, near Ayá-Sófiya, with three baths and two hundred apartments; of Reís Ismáíl, near Mahmúd Páshá; of Khán Zádeh Sultán, or Bairám Páshá, near Ayá-Sófiya; of Wárwár Alí Páshá, near Sultán Ahmed’s mosque; of Emírgúneh Zádeh Yúsuf Páshá, near the stable-gate; of Mokábilijí Hasan Efendí; of the Kapúdán Hasan Páshá, near Ayá-Sófiya; of Aísha Sultáneh, near Ak-Seráï; of Ján Pulád Zádeh Husain Páshá; of Juván Kapijí the Vezír, otherwise the Seráï of Rustam Páshá, near the convent of Khoájeh Ahmed Sultán; of Ankabút Ahmed Páshá; of Khoájeh Ibrahím, better known by the name of Jinjí Khoájeh; of Sáleh Páshá, near Mahmúd Páshá; of Kapúdán Síávush Páshá, near the harbour of galleys; of Ak-Mohammed Páshá, near the Jinjí Maidán; of Balátlí Solák Chelebí; of Husain Aghá, near the mosque of Sultán Selím; the barracks of the Janissaries, near the Orta Jámi’; the palace of Ibrahím, the inspector of the arsenal, near the Vafá, for which the humble writer composed a chronograph.
The following palaces were built by the architect Sinán during the reigns of Sultáns Selím I. and Soleïmán: The imperial palace of Sultán Mohammed II. having been burnt down, it was rebuilt by Sultán Soleïmán, who also restored the Galata Seráï, which was built by Sultán Báyazíd. Sinán also built the palace of Yení-kapú; of Mohammed Páshá, in the galley-harbour; of Mohammed Páshá, at Ayá Sófíya; of Rustam Páshá, Vezír of Sultán Soleïmán; of Kojeh Alí Páshá; in the place of Gúzel Ahmed Páshá’s palace, in the Hippodrome, was built the mosque of Sultán Ahmed I.; the seráï of Ferhád Páshá, near Sultán Báyazíd; of Pertev Páshá, on the Vafá; of Kojeh Sinán Páshá, at the Hasán place; of Súfí Mohammed Páshá, near Khoájeh Páshá; of Mohammed Aghá, near Yení-bághcheh; of Sháh Khúbán, near the fountain of Kásim Páshá.