An early work of Mimar Sinan, this complex was built on the instructions of Süleyman the Manificient in 1548 in memory of his daughter Mihrimah Sultan, whose mother was the famous Roxelana. It contained a mosque, a school for children, a fountain, a medrese consisting of sixteen rooms, a questhouse of eight rooms, a stable, a larder, a store house and a caravanserai.