List of mosques in Greece

The construction of mosques in Greece has been documented since the period of the Ottoman Empire in Greece. ^[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]

East Macedonia and Thrace

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

Central Macedonia

Name	Image	Location	Year/century	Remarks
Zincirli Mosque		Serres	?
Koca Mustafa Mosque		Serres	?
Yeni Camii		Komotini	1585
Selvili Mosque		Komotini	?
Yunus Bey Mosque		Komotini	?
Medrese Mosque		Veroia	?
Orta Mosque		Veroia	1490	The mosque was declared a preserved monument in 1938, but has variously been used as a house, a musical instruments workshop and a stonemason’s workshop.
Ahmed Bey Mosque		Giannitsa	?
Yeni Cami		Εdessa	1904
Hamza Bey Mosque		Salonica	1460
Alaca Imaret Mosque		Salonica	1484 or 1487
Yeni Cami		Salonica	1902

Western Macedonia

Name	Image	Location	Year/century	Remarks
Kurşun Mosque		Kastoria	?

Epirus

Name	Image	Location	Year/century	Remarks
Faik Pasha Mosque		Arta	?
Feyzullah Mosque		Arta	?
Fethiye Mosque		Its Kale, Ioannina	1430
Aslan Pasha Mosque		Ioannina	1618	Since 1933 it houses the Municipal Ethnographic Museum of Ioannina
Kaloutsiani Mosque		Ioannina	1740
Veli Pasha Mosque/Tsiekur Mosque		Ioannina	?

Thessaly

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

Euboea

Name	Image	Location	Year/century	Remarks
Emir Zade Mosque		Chalkida	?

Western Greece and Peloponnese

Name	Image	Location	Year/century	Remarks
Fethiye Mosque		Nafpaktos	1499	The mosque has been extensively restored and now functions as an exhibition hall.
Ahmed III Mosque		Corinth	1715	The mosque mostly stands in ruins.
Aga Pasha Mosque/Trianon Mosque		Nafplio	?
Monemvasia Mosque		Monemvasia	?

Aegean Islands

Name	Image	Location	Year/century	Remarks
Ibrahim Pasha Mosque		Rhodes	?	The mosque is the only operational mosque in Rhodes of the twelve mosques from the Ottoman era [8]
Murat Reis Mosque		Rhodes	?
Recep Paşa Mosque		Rhodes	?
Suleymaniye Mosque		Rhodes	1522	It currently serves as a museum [9]
Mehmet Aga Mosque		Rhodes	?
Osmaniye Mosque		Chios	1891	The mosque was officially registered by Greek Ministry of Culture as a cultural landmark on January 21, 1983 and made available for hosting exhibitions and various cultural events.
Mecidiye Mosque		Chios	?
Gazi Hasan Pasha Mosque		Kos	?	The mosque is amongst two of the five Ottoman era mosques operational and open for daily prayers in the island of Kos. [8]
Defterdar Mosque		Kos	?	The mosque is amongst two of the five Ottoman era mosques operational and open for daily prayers in the island of Kos. [8]
Yeni Mosque		Mytilene, Lesbos	1825
Valide Mosque		Mytilene	1615

Crete

Name	Image	Location	Year/century	Remarks
Küçük Hasan Pasha Mosque		Chania	?
Ierapetra Mosque		Ierapetra	?
Neradje Mosque		Rethymno	?
Kara Musa Pasha Mosque		Rethymno	?
Veli Pasha Mosque		Rethymno	?

Attica

Name	Image	Location	Year/century	Remarks
Tzistarakis Mosque		Monastiraki, Athens	1759 [10]	Houses part of the Museum of Greek Folk Art.
Fethiye Mosque		Roman Agora, Athens	17th century [11]	Repurposed after Greek independence in 1834, it fell into disrepair, but after renovations it was reopened to the public in 2017 and is presently being used for cultural exhibitions.
Votanikos Mosque		Athens	2020 [12]	First purpose-built mosque in Athens after Greek Independence, fully funded by Greece government

See also

• Islam in Greece
• List of former mosques in Greece
• Greek Muslims
• Lists of mosques

References

1. Skoulariki, Athena. "Old and new mosques in Greece:a new debate haunted by history". academia.edu. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
2. Canard (1971), pp. 1084–1085
3. Kazhdan (1991), p. 96
4. Katsikas, Stefanos (2021). Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821-1940. Oxford University Press. p.  13. ISBN   978-0-19-065200-5.
5. Giuseppe Motta (2013). Less than Nations: Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI. Vol. 1. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 365. ISBN   9781443854610.
6. Σερβιλί Τζαμί
7. Page 196, Memory and Architecture, Eleni Bastéa,(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004).
8. Pg 124, The Forgotten Turkish Identity Of The Aegean Islands. Prof Mustafa Kaymakçı, Dr Cihan Özgün, Published by Eğitim Yayınevi, 2018
9. "Suleymaniye Mosque | Rhodes Greece".
10. Τζαμί Τζισταράκη. Archaeology of the City of Athens (in Greek). National Research Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
11. Θα αποκατασταθεί το Φετιχιέ Τζαμί στη Ρωμαϊκή Αγορά (in Greek). Eleftherotypia. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
12. 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

External links

• https://www.academia.edu/34744567/Islamic_Architecture_in_Greece_Mosques