View of the dome of hammam of the İshak Pasha palace. An Ottoman-period palace, the İshak Pasha Palace features architectural styles of Ottoman, Persian and Seljuk civilizations. After Istanbul Topkapı Palace is the most famous of the palaces built in the last period. Its construction started in 1685 by Çolak Abdi Pasha, the bey of Beyazit province, and continued by his son İshak Pasha and completed by his grandson Mehmet Pasha in 1784. Though called a palace, it is rather a külliye, a complex of buildings, including exterior façades, first and second courts, Selamlık (men's quarter), mosque, Darüzziyafe (The soup kitchen), hammam, Harem (Section for female members of the court), hall for ceremonies and entertaintment, arched gates, panteri...