The Bachelors' Mosque ( sq, Xhamia e Beqarëve), formerly known as the Sylejman Pasha Mosque, is a

Cultural Monument A national heritage site is a heritage site having a value that has been registered by a governmental agency as being of national importance to the cultural heritage or history of that country. Usually such sites are listed in a heritage regist ...

in Berat City, Berat County, Albania. It became a Cultural Monument in 1961. The mosque is located in the lower Mangalem neighborhood. It has two floors and arcades on three sides of it. The

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of the mosque is low. The paintings inside the mosque date from the years 1927–1928. Since the times of the Communist dictatorship under

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, the portico ''(hajati)'' of the mosque is used as a store for women's underwear which can be seen as a disgrace to

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Cultural Monuments of Albania Mosques in Berat Ottoman architecture in Albania Religious buildings and structures completed in 1828 {{Albania-mosque-stub

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