Şah Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III)

Şah Sultan was born on 20 April 1761 in the Topkapı Palace.[1][2] Her father was Sultan Mustafa III, and her mother was Mihrişah Kadın (died 1799).[3][4]

On 24 April 1764, when Şah was three years old, her father betrothed her to the Grand Vizier Köse Bahir Mustafa Pasha. He was dismissed from his post and was killed in 1765.[5][2]

On 2 January 1768, when Şah was seven years old, she was betrothed to Mehmed Emin Pasha. He became the Grand Vizier the same year, and was killed in 1769.[5][2]

On 6 November 1778, during the reign of her uncle Sultan Abdul Hamid I, when Şah was seventeen years old, she married vizier Nişançı Seyyid Mustafa Pasha. The wedding procession followed the bride to Cağaloğlu Palace, located on the Divanyolu street. The wedding reception took place the next day. The couple together had a daughter, Şerife Havva Hanımsultan, born in 1780 and died in infancy.[6][7][3]

In 1792, the Şah Sultan commissioned a fountain near the Kasım Gönanî Mosque in Yeşildirek. In 1800, she commissioned her own mausoleum, a school, and another fountain near Zal Mahmud Pasha's mausoleum in Eyüp.[8][9]

The facade of the complex is located on the street in the east direction. There is a tomb with a small fountain on both sides on the left, a courtyard door to the right of the tomb, and a fountain with a median school on the far right. The entire facade is made of marble except for the decorated section with a cut stone braid on the far left of the courtyard facade, a rectangular shaped door and three window openings with bite iron. The courtyard door has a round arch.[10]

Şah Sultan died on 11 March 1803 in the Çağaloğlu Palace,[11] and was buried in her own mausoleum located in Eyüp.[9][3] Her husband outlived her by ten years dying in 1813.[6] Şah Sultan was really active through out the reign of father, uncle and brother Selim III. She is a well-known princess. [9]

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• Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.