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The Fortezza of Rethymno has an irregular plan, and its walls have a total length of 1,307 m (4,288 ft). The walls contain the following demi-bastions: [1] St Nicolas Bastion – the demi-bastion at the east end of the fortress. It contains a Venetian-era building which was possibly originally a storehouse or laboratory. [7]
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 ...
Located on Arkadiou street, it was most likely erected during the 1680s, or right after the conquest of the city in 1646, [1] perhaps by the Ottoman governor of Crete, [2] on the site of a Venetian monastery dedicated to Saint Barbara. [1] [3] Another date of erection suggested is 1683. [3]
Atsipopoulo is a local community of the Rethymno Municipality in the Rethymno (regional unit) of the region of Crete established by Kallikratis reform. Previously, it was part of municipality of Nikiforos Fokas. Capital of the new municipality is Rethymno.
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 .
The oldest historical reference to the mosque can be dated back to 1654, just a few years after the Ottoman conquest of the town; a document from 1671 mentions its dependence on the Valide Sultan Mosque in Bahçe Kapısı, in Constantinople (now Istanbul). [1]
Rethymno (also Rethymnon; Greek: Ρέθυμνο) is a city in Greece on the island of Crete. It is the capital of Rethymno regional unit, and has a population of more than 35,000 inhabitants (nearly 40,000 for the municipal unit).
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