List of mosques in Albania
This is a list of mosques in Albania.[1]
Approximately 740 mosques were destroyed in c. 1967 by the Communist dictatorship under Enver Hoxha, when state atheism was introduced. Only a small number of mosque have been restored.[2]
List of mosques
Current mosques
Former mosques
- White Mosque, Berat – established 1417; destroyed in the 19th century; now in ruins
- Selimije Mosque – established 1478 on the site of a 1st-century BCE church; destroyed in 1967; repurposed in the 1980s as a mausoleum and national monument
- Fethiye Mosque (Krujë) – established 1481; destroyed from 1937; now in ruins
- Red Mosque, Berat – established in the 15th century; now in ruins
- Hajji Bendo Mosque – established in the 16th century; destroyed in 1967; now in ruins
- Sulejman Pasha Mosque – established in 1614; destroyed in 1944
- Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mosque – established in 1685 on the site of a 13th-century church; destroyed in 1967; now in ruins
- Teqe Mosque – established 1733; destroyed in 1967; now in ruins
- Telelka Mosque – established in the 18th century; destroyed in 1967; now in partial ruins
- Castle Mosque, Lezhë – established year unknown; now in ruins
See also
References
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