The case of a “new” mahalle, just next to Kasap İlyas is a good example
of an attempted but aborted neighborhood. Its existence is documented as far
back as the second quarter of the sixteenth century, and it seems to have then
occupied an area around the Davud Paœa gate. It was at that time called a
“new mahalle, adjacent to Kasap İlyas,” probably because it did not yet have
a mosque of its own from which to derive a name. In the 1630s, however,
Bekir Paœa, one of the defterdars28 to Sultan Murad IV, built a two-story
wooden mosque on the seaside just outside the ramparts, endowed it, and
appointed an imam and a muezzin to officiate in it. With a number of people
already living in the area, and a newly established and endowed mosque, the
new neighborhood was thus set to acquire its independence from Kasap İlyas.
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