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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Retimo Latin: Dioecesis Rhithymnensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Rethymo (modern day Rethymno) on the north coast of the island of Crete. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established around 1250 AD.
Very shortly after the town of Rethymno was conquered by the Ottomans, they demolished the church and built the mosque, dedicated to Sultan Ibrahim I in 1648, with a large, imposing dome. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The complaed became property of the city of Rethymno in 1971; it was restored between 2002 and 2004 by the Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, and ...
After the monastery's conversion into mosque in the seventeenth century, a dome and a minaret was added to it by the Ottoman Turks. [4]In the area there is also a fountain topped with a dome, which has two sides: one side facing Arkadiou Street, and the other the courtyard of the mosque.
After the conquest of Rethymno by the Ottomans, the monastery was turned into a mosque, which was known as the Mosque of Gazi Hüseyin Pasha or the Neradje Mosque. Following the 1923 population exchange between Turkey and Greece and the departure of the Muslim population of Crete in 1924, the building was turned into a music school .
Veli Pasha Mosque was built outside the walls by a supporter of Gazi Hüseyin Pasha on the site of an older Christian church dedicated to Saint Onuphrius. [1] [2] It is associated with the conquest of Rethymno by the Ottomans in 1646; on the site that the Ottoman troops made their military camp, the Muslim community of the town would later erect the mosque of Veli Pasha, perhaps around 1651. [3]
It consists of the unification of the pre-existing municipalities Arkadi, Lappa, Rethymno and Nikiforos Fokas of Rethymno Prefecture. The extent of the new municipality is 396.256 km 2 (152.995 sq mi), [3] and it had a population of 57,216 inhabitants at the 2021 census. [2] The seat of the new municipality is the town Rethymno. [4]
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence The Penitent Magdalene is a wooden sculpture of Mary Magdalene by the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello , now usually dated to around 1440. The sculpture was probably commissioned for the Baptistery of Florence .
Bien Hoa is an industrial city where Bien Hoa Air Base is located. It is part of the Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area. Vũng Tàu is the hub of Vietnam's petroleum industry, as well as being a tourist destination. Tây Ninh City, where Caodaism was born. Thủ Dầu Một, an industrial city. It is a part of Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area.