The Bachelors' Mosque (), formerly known as the Sylejman Pasha Mosque (), is a Cultural Monument in Berat City,

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. It became a Cultural Monument in 1961. The

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is located in the lower Mangalem neighborhood. It has two floors and arcades on three sides of it. The

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of the mosque is low. The paintings inside the mosque date from the years 1927–1928. Since the times of the Communist dictatorship under

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, the portico ''(hajati)'' of the mosque has been used as a store for women's underwear which can be seen as a disgrace to

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Cultural Monuments of Albania Mosques in Berat Ottoman mosques in Albania Religious buildings and structures completed in 1828 {{Albania-mosque-stub

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