The building is also a library. The inscription on the entrance door of the library located on the west side of the courtyard indicates that the building was built in AH 1274 / AD 1863. The building consists of rectangular sections on two sides and a rectangular entrance in the middle. Unlike the stepped arrangement on the front facade of the building, the back part consists of a completely flat wall. There are three rectangular windows on each side. There is a rectangular window above the mirrored arched entrance door. The main walls of the library are terminated with three rows of spiked eaves and covered with a tiled hipped roof.

Source: Eryüksel, Erengül, 17th-19th Century Ottoman Mosques in the City of Safranbolu (unpublished Master's Thesis), Gazi University, Ankara, 2005

In the inscription of the building, it is written in Ta'lik script as follows:

This foundation was founded by the late Köprülüzade Mehmed Pasha and revived all the people of the region.
A library was built next to the mosque | May God bless the pure soul in eternity with mercy /
Tanin-endaz is the dancer of every hour, Gerdune | In these places, the minister has not seen religion and the world /
Look at the jewel-clock, the Holy Quran wrote the history | How magnificent this time-keeping house has become /
H.1274 AD~1857

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