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Molla Zeyrek Camii is located in the Zeyrek neighborhood of Istanbul’s Fatih district. Originally part of the Byzantine Pantokrator Monastery complex, its churches were converted into a madrasa after the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul and became the city’s first educational institution under Ottoman rule. During the Byzantine era, the Pantokrator Monastery was Istanbul’s second-largest Christian religious structure after Hagia Sophia. Following the conquest, at the order of Fatih Sultan Mehmed, th