Gazi Mehmet Pasha's Mosque ( sq, Xhamia e Gazi Mehmet Pashës) also known as the Bajrakli Mosque ( sq, Xhamia e Bajraklisë) is a mosque in the city of

Prizren ) , settlement_type = Municipality and city , image_skyline = Prizren Collage.jpg , imagesize = 290px , image_caption = View of Prizren , image_alt = View of Prizren , image_flag ...

. It is one of the oldest Islamic religious sites in Kosovo. Building started in 1561 and finished in 1573. Its building is part of a complex which included the mosque, a library, a maktab and madrasa, public baths, housing and other buildings in a radius of about 150m. The present-day League of Prizren museum was one of its buildings. The complex stands on the other side of the

Lumbardhi i Prizrenit The Lumbardhi i Prizrenit or Prizren Bistrica ( sq, Bistrica e Prizrenit; sr, Призренска Бистрица / ''Prizrenska Bistrica'') is a river in Kosovo. It flows through the villages of Sredska and Prizren, and empties into the White ...

river opposite to the Prizren Fortress. The mosque has a square base and numerous windows, while the main

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 ...

and the

mimber A minbar (; sometimes romanized as ''mimber'') is a pulpit in a mosque where the imam (leader of prayers) stands to deliver sermons (, ''khutbah''). It is also used in other similar contexts, such as in a Hussainiya where the speaker sits and lec ...

are made of marble. It was built by the waqf of Dukaginzade Gazi Mehmet Pasha, great-grandson of

Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha ( sq, Ahmed Pashë Dukagjini, ota, دوقکین زاده أحمد پاشا, tr, Dukakinoğlu Ahmed Paşa, d. 1515) born Progon Dukagjini was a high-ranking statesman and military commander of the Ottoman Empire in the ...

. His future mausoleum was built in the courtyard of the mosque, but it was never used as he died ca. 1594–96 in Hungary.

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