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White Mosque (other)
White Mosque may refer to: * White Mosque, Berat, a ruined building in Albania * White Mosque, Nazareth, a 19th-century mosque in Nazareth * White Mosque, Ramla, an 8th-century mosque in Ramla * Abidin Mosque, in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia * Jezzar Pasha Mosque (White Mosque of Acre), an 18th-century mosque in Acre * Nurulla Mosque, in Kazan, Russia * Šerefudin's White Mosque, a 15th-century mosque in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Al-Aqsa Library's former name See also * Ak-Mechet (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Mosque, Berat
The White Mosque ( sq, Xhamia e Bardhë or ''Ak Mesxhid''), also known as Sultan Bayezid II. Mosque, is a ruined mosque in Berat Castle, Berat, Albania. From the small, roughly square mosque there are still about a meter high foundation walls and the base of the minaret, a little over two meters high. It was built with white limestone in 1417, and was destroyed sometime in the 19th century after a local uprising against the Ottoman Empire's Tanzimat reforms. It became a Cultural Monument of Albania in 1961, but was left untended after 1967 under Enver Hoxha Enver Halil Hoxha ( , ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who was the authoritarian ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 unt ...'s atheistic regime. References Ottoman architecture in Albania Cultural Monuments of Albania Mosques in Berat Ruins in Albania Mosques destroyed by communists Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |