The construction of mosques in Greece has been documented since the period of the Greek Ottoman Empire.[1] Most of the mosques listed were built in the late 14th to early 20th centuries, when parts of modern Greece were part of the Ottoman Empire.[2][3]
Later several Christian churches throughout Greece were also converted into mosques after the Ottoman conquest, like the Hagios Demetrios church in Thessaloniki.[4] Although gradually Hagios Demetrios was converted back into a church after Greek independence and the annexation of other territories.[5]
Name | Image | Location | Year/century | Remarks |
Alexandroupolis Mosque | | Alexandroupolis | | Open for worship. |
Eski Mosque, Komotini | | Komotini | 1608 | It is currently active as a place of Muslim worship. |
Yeni Mosque, Komotini | | Komotini | 1585 | It is in active service as a place of Muslim worship, serving the large Muslim community of Komotini. |
Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque or Bayezid Mosque | | Didymoteicho, Evros Prefecture | completed 1420 | |
Arap Mosque (Drama) | | Drama | ? | |
Selvili Mosque | | Komotini | 2nd half of the 19th century[6] | |
Halil Bey Mosque | | Kavala | ≈1530 | |
Epirus
Name | Image | Location | Year/century | Remarks |
Osman Shah Mosque | | Trikala | 1550s | The mosque is no longer used for worship; it now functions as a venue for minor events and is a protected UNESCO site. |
Yeni Mosque | | Larissa | 1902 | It was used to house the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki in 1925. Today it serves as an exhibition center. |
Alaca Imaret Mosque | | Thessaloniki | 1484 or 1487 | Today the building is being used for temporary exhibitions, artistic and cultural events.[7] |
Hamza Bey Mosque | | Thessaloniki | 15th century | Since 1923, the minaret was removed and the building no longer functioned as a mosque. It was taken over by the Greek Ministry of Culture in 2006. |
Elassona Mosque | | Elassona | 17th/18th century | For some time, the building was used to store parts of the Elassona archaeological collection. |
Bayrakli Mosque, Larissa | | Larissa | 15th/16th century | |
Attica
See also
References
- ^ Skoulariki, Athena. "Old and new mosques in Greece:a new debate haunted by history". academia.edu. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- ^ Canard (1971), pp. 1084–1085
- ^ Kazhdan (1991), p. 96
- ^ Katsikas, Stefanos (2021). Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821-1940. Oxford University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-19-065200-5.
- ^ Giuseppe Motta (2013). Less than Nations: Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI. Vol. 1. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 365. ISBN 9781443854610.
- ^ Σερβιλί Τζαμί
- ^ Page 196, Memory and Architecture, Eleni Bastéa,(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004).
- ^ a b c Pg 124,The Forgotten Turkish Identity Of The Aegean Islands. Prof Mustafa Kaymakçı, Dr Cihan Özgün, Published by Eğitim Yayınevi, 2018
- ^ "Suleymaniye Mosque | Rhodes Greece".
- ^ Τζαμί Τζισταράκη. Archaeology of the City of Athens (in Greek). National Research Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ^ Θα αποκατασταθεί το Φετιχιέ Τζαμί στη Ρωμαϊκή Αγορά (in Greek). Eleftherotypia. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ^ Ghazanchyan, Siranush (2020-09-15). "First official mosque to open in Athens in the shadow of Hagia Sophia debates". Public Radio of Armenia. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
Ahmed AMEEN, Islamic Architecture in Greece: Mosques. Foreword: Mostafa El Feki, Center for Islamic Civilization studies, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria 2017. ISBN 978-977-452-434-6
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