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The Chios Byzantine Museum is a
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The Chios Byzantine Museum is a museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
in Chios
Chios (; el, Χίος, Chíos , traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greek island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. Chios is notable for its exports of mastic ...
, Greece
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, housed in an Ottoman-era mosque that was known as the Mecidiye Mosque.
History
The mosque was called Mecidiye Mosque and was built in the 19th century by sultan Abdul Mecid I. During the years 2006 to 2010 the museum underwent repair work, so it remained closed. The museum houses Christian and Byzantine sculptures in its yard, as well as exhibits from the Genoese and Ottoman periods of Chios' history.See also
*Islam in Greece
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* List of museums in Greece
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Attica
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:Archaeological
*Acropolis Museum
* Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos
*Epigraphical Museum
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* List of mosques in Greece The construction of mosques in Greece has been documented since the period of the Greek Ottoman Empire. Most of the mosques listed were built in the late 14th to early 20th centuries, when parts of modern Greece were part of the Ottoman Empire.
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References
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Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Buildings and structures in Chios Byzantine museums in Greece Museums in the North Aegean Ottoman mosques in Greece Former mosques in Greece Ottoman Chios 19th-century mosques 19th-century architecture in Greece {{greece-museum-stub