The Gazi Hasan Pasha Mosque ( el, Γαζί Χασάν Πασά Τζαμί; tr, Gazi Hasan Paşa Camii) is an
Ottoman-era mosque in the Aegean island of
Kos, in
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...
. Built in the 18th century, it serves the
Muslim-Turkish community of Kos, as one of the two out of the five Ottoman mosques to be still operational and open for prayers on Kos, the other being the
Defterdar Mosque.
[''The Forgotten Turkish Identity Of The Aegean Islands''. Prof Mustafa Kaymakçı, Dr Cihan Özgün, Published by Eğitim Yayınevi, 2018, p. 124] It is also one of the two mosques in Kos to be named after Gazi Hasan Pasha, the other being the
one in Kos town.
History
The mosque was built in 1778
or in between 1784 and 1785,
in the village of Platani in
Kos by the Algerian
Gazi Hasan Pasha, likely on the site of a previous building.
The mosque, particularly its minaret, was heavily damaged by the
1933 earthquake, and was thereafter repaired by the Italians, who
held Kos at the time.
It was further damaged during the
2017 Aegean Sea earthquake
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck on 21 July 2017, about south southeast of Bodrum, Turkey, at depth of 7.0 km. Two people were killed and more than 120 others were injured on the Greek island of Kos, while at least 360 injuries were report ...
, whereupon plans for extensive restoration were announced.
Structure
Following the usual Ottoman style, the narthex and the
mihrab
Mihrab ( ar, محراب, ', pl. ') is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the ''qibla'', the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a ''mihrab'' appears is thus the "qibla w ...
is found on the ground floor, while on the upper floor contains the women's cloister, accessible by a staircase. There is a marble fountain in the courtyard area, which was used to grind wheat.
See also
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Islam in Greece
Islam in Greece is represented by two distinct communities; Muslims that have lived in Greece since the times of the Ottoman Empire (primarily in East Macedonia and Thrace) and Muslim immigrants that began arriving in the last quarter of the ...
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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.
L ...
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List of former mosques in Greece
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Ottoman Greece
References
Further reading
* ''History of the Island of Kos: Ancient, Medieval, Modern'', by Vasilis S. Hatzivasileiou, published 2013.
{{Mosques in Greece
Ottoman mosques in Greece
18th-century architecture in Greece
18th-century mosques
Mosques completed in the 1770s
Buildings and structures in Kos