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The Mosque of Ibrahim Pasha was a mosque built by Ibrahim Pasha of Parga in Razgrad in 1533, and it is believed to be the first-ever congregational mosque in Razgrad. The 1533 Deed of Trust of Ibrahim Pasha testifies on the existence of such a temple and provides information on its appearance, architecture, and staff: the mosque was built upon a firm foundation and had one-of-a-kind columns.
Ibrahim Pasha Mosque Kavala: 1530 1920s Once the largest mosque in the town of Kavala, in the early 1920s it was converted into a church and now serves the Christian population. [26] Muhammad Ali Pasha Mosque: Kavala: 1813 1923 Mosque part of the Imaret complex in Kavala built by and named in honour of Muhammad Ali Pasha, a Kavala native. The ...
In the 1920s the mosque was converted into a church for Christian worship, dedicated to Saint Nicholas; the bell-tower was built upon the base of the destroyed minaret. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] On the eastern side of the church there is a mural depicting the arrival of Apostle Paul in the port.
Ibrahim Pasha Mosque (Greek: Ιμπραήμ Πασά Τζαμί, from Turkish: İbrahim Paşa Camii) is an Ottoman-era mosque on the Aegean island of Rhodes, Greece.It is the oldest out of the seven mosques inside the old walled city of Rhodes, and the only one open to worship today, serving the Turkish-Muslim community of Rhodes.
Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque. Following the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus, a number of churches (especially the Catholic ones) were converted into mosques. A relatively significant surge in church-to-mosque conversion followed the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus.
Mosque of Pasha Qasim: Pécs: Hungary: 16th Century 1702 The current building, a hundred steps in length and in width, was built by Pasha Qasim the Victorious between 1543 and 1546. The mosque was converted to a church in 1702, after Habsburg-Hungarian troops reconquered the city. The minaret was destroyed by the Jesuits in 1766. One of the ...
After the Balkan Wars, the mosque along with the greater Kavala region became part of the Kingdom of Greece. At the beginning of the 20th century, the mosque functioned as a girls' school. After the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, Halil Bey mosque and its madrasa (religious school) housed many Greek refugees fleeing Turkey. [2]
The mosque received its name from Ibrahim Efendi, an Ottoman minister of finance , who ordered its construction at the close of the 18th century. [2] It has been suggested that it was previously an Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Paraskevi. [3] The mosque was severely damaged the great earthquakes that hit Kos in the years 1926 and 1933.