Yeni Mosque

The Yeni Mosque is a ancient mosque in Larissa, Greece. The mosque changed into built across the turn of the 20th century, within the centre of the city, at 31 is Avgoustou Road. Its genuine date of creation, in addition to its founder, are unknown, but the neoclassical decoration each on the outside as well as in the indoors factor to sometime inside the nineteenth century. It became the final of numerous mosques constructed within the metropolis beneath Ottoman rule, whence its call. The mosque persisted to be used by the nearby Muslims until 1924, when they left in effect of the Greco-Turkish populace change.

From 1939–1941 constructing become used to house the Municipal Library and a small archaeological series, which become in part looted by the occupying forces at some point of the Axis occupation of Greece. The earthquakes of 1941, 1955, 1957, and 1980 broken the constructing. From the overdue Fifties until 2011 the constructing housed the Larissa Archeaological Museum. The building is rectangular-formed, presenting a prayer hall with 9 arched windows and a four-sided, tile-blanketed roof. The entrance has a tripartite portico blanketed by using three half-domes. The minaret on the northwestern corner survives as much as the balcony.