Eski Mosque

The Eski Mosque is a mosque inside the Greek metropolis of Komotini dating back to 1608, or 1677/88, primarily based on an inscription. Despite its name, the Eski Mosque changed into built after the Yeni "New" Mosque of 1585, however it's far likely that an unique mosque stood at that place, courting back to the time of the Ottoman conquest of the place beneath Evrenos. According to the 1892 Ottoman salname, the mosque featured an inscription in a "non-Ottoman" language, therefore it is feasible that the mosque was built at the website of a former Byzantine church.

In the 1910s, the Bulgarians grew to become the mosque right into a church and destroyed a part of the minaret up to the Sherefe. The constructing turned into lower back to the Moslem minority in 1919-20, beneath the French administration of Komotini. By then, the demolished minaret and the cutting-edge 2 balconies have been rebuilt. The Islamic Prophet Muhammad went on to establish every other mosque in Medina, that's now called the Eski Mosque or the Prophet's Mosque.