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Originally built by the Ottomans, it was converted into a church after the transfer of the city to Wallachia following the Treaty of Adrianople. Saint Nicholas Church: Ibrahim Pasha Mosque Kavala: Greece: 1530 1920s The mosque was built in 1530 by Ibrahim Pasha, the Vizier of Suleiman II and was the largest mosque of Kavala. In the 1920s the ...
The Theotokos Kosmosoteira monastery in Feres was converted into a mosque in the mid-14th century. The original Pantocrator (Kursum Mosque) church building in Patras. The gothic-style Panagia tou Kastrou (Enderun Mosque), the Holy Trinity church in Knights Avenue (Khan Zade Mosque) in Rhodes.
Pages in category "Religious buildings and structures converted into mosques" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This category contains church buildings that were converted into mosques under the Ottoman Empire (14th century – 1923), regardless of their current use. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into a mosque in 2020, soon after it similarly turned Istanbul’s landmark Haghia Sophia into a Muslim ...
Hagia Sophia (Greek: Αγία Σοφία, meaning 'the Holy Wisdom'; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a formerly Greek Orthodox church that was converted into a mosque following the conquest of Trabzon by Mehmed II in 1461. It is located in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey. It was converted into a museum in 1964 [1] and back into a mosque in 2013. [2]
Buildings converted to Catholic church buildings (2 C, 20 P) Church buildings converted to a different denomination (2 C, 43 P) Conversion of non-Christian religious buildings and structures into churches (3 C, 50 P)
The Church of Hagia Sophia was converted into the Orhan Mosque following the fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks led by Orhan Ghazi in 1331. It continued to operate as a mosque until 1935, when it was designated as a museum under the regime of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. [6] In November 2011 it was again converted into a mosque. [2]