White Mosque, Berat

The White Mosque ( sq, Xhamia e Bardhë or ''Ak Mesxhid''), also known as Sultan Bayezid II. Mosque, is a ruined mosque in Berat Castle, Berat, Albania. From the small, roughly square mosque there are still about a meter high foundation walls and the base of the minaret, a little over two meters high. It was built with white limestone in 1417, and was destroyed sometime in the 19th century after a local uprising against the Ottoman Empire's Tanzimat reforms.

It became a Cultural Monument of Albania in 1961, but was left untended after 1967 under Enver Hoxha's atheistic regime.

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Ottoman architecture in Albania
Cultural Monuments of Albania
Mosques in Berat
Ruins in Albania
Mosques destroyed by communists
Anti-Islam sentiment in Albania

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