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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.
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.
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 largest Ottoman constructions remaining in Hungary, the building still retains many Turkish architectural characteristics. [26] Shrine of Our Lady of Europe: Europa Point: Gibraltar: 1309
The compulsory conversion to Islam which these boys underwent as part of their education is the only documented form of systematic forced conversion organized by the Ottoman state. [ 4 ] For strategic reasons, the Ottomans forcibly converted Christians living in the frontier regions of Macedonia and northern Bulgaria, particularly in the 16th ...
Mosques in the Ottoman Empire (1 C) This page was last edited on 8 December 2024, at 02:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
Egypt has inaugurated a newly restored Ottoman mosque, built by the 16th century governor Suleyman Pasha al-Khadim, that lies within the citadel that has dominated Cairo's skyline for centuries.