Mosque of Sultan Ibrahim

The Ibrahim Han Mosque is set amidst the Venetian Fortezza. The mosque is found beside the Rector's living arrangement and was initially a Venetian house of prayer committed to Saint Nicholas, worked in the 1580. Nonetheless, when Rethymno was involved by the Turks, in 1646, it was changed over into an Ottoman mosque by the sultan Ibrahim Han and took his name.

The building itself is an extremely all around built. It is a strong square development with a great vault of 11m distance across. It has a supplication specialty inside, settled in the focal point of the south-eastern divider, confronting Mecca, the Muslim's sacred town. It additionally has the construct of a minaret with respect to its west side, which is the main protected piece of this structure since the minaret itself hasn't survived hundreds of years.

A little house of a prayer is worked alongside the mosque committed to Agios Theodoros Trichinas and was introduced in 1899. Shockingly, the mosque is today shut to the general population and opens just to have some melodic presentations. Nonetheless, it is as yet justified regardless of a visit, just to respect its design and to see the inside through a window.