Ibrahim Pasha Mosque ( el, Ιμπραήμ Πασά Τζαμί, from tr, İbrahim Paşa Camii) is an Ottoman-era mosque on the Aegean island of

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. It is the oldest out of the seven mosques inside the old walled city of

, and the only one open to worship today, serving the Turkish-Muslim community of Rhodes.

History

After the Ottomans captured Rhodes from the

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in 1522, Muslim Turkish populations settled within the

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, where new mosques were built, while others were made from converted Christian churches in order to serve the new community. The Ibrahim Pasha Mosque was built in 1540-1541 in what is today Platonos Square by Sultan

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, and is thus the oldest mosque on the island. The mosque's minaret had over the centuries suffered serious decay and damage. In the 1930s, where restoration works were commissioned under Italian rule. Although it has continuously served as a mosque, it was officially granted an operating license by the Greek Ministry of Education and Religion only in 2019, along with the

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and Gazi Hasan Pasha mosques in the neighbouring island of

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Architecture

Built within the old medieval town of Rhodes, the mosque consists of a large square room with a twelve-sided dome and two successive pediments alongside the north side. In the northwest corner of the roof, a minaret stands on a polygonal base. An eight-sided fountain can be found in the middle of the yard outside. The minaret is cylindrical and has one balcony.

Gallery

File:Ibrahim Pasha Cami, Rhodes 2010 2.jpg, Walls of the mosque File:Ibrahim Pasha Cami, Rhodes 2010 3.jpg, The fountain File:Ibrahim Pasha Cami, Rhodes 2010 4.jpg, The façade File:Ibrahim Pasha Cami, Rhodes 2010 5.jpg, The entrance door File:Rodi, Minareto della Moschea di Ibrahim Pascià - panoramio.jpg, The minaret File:Rhodos133.JPG, Fountain File:Rodi, Moschea di Ibrahim Pascià vista dal porto commerciale - panoramio.jpg, Exterior view

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* {{Mosques in Greece Ottoman mosques in Greece Buildings and structures in Rhodes (city) 16th-century architecture in Greece 16th-century mosques

Mosque buildings with domes Ottoman architecture in Rhodes

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