The Bebek Mosque, officially the Hümayûn-u Âbad Mosque, stands in the Bebek neighborhood of the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, behind Bebek Pier on the Bosphorus. It was built in 1913 to a design by the architect Mimar Kemaleddin. It replaced an earlier mosque on the site that had been commissioned by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha.
The mosque follows the First National Architectural Movement, an Ottoman revival style. It has a square plan and is built of limestone blocks. The main dome is supported by four half domes. Six arched windows sit below 28 smaller arched windows, which light the interior.
A single polygonal minaret stands on a high base beside the western wall. Three lines of muqarnas decorate the area under its balcony. The mosque is still in use.
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