Esmahan Sultan Mosque
Esmahan Sultan Mosque | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Islam |
Location | |
Location | Oituz Street 1, Mangalia, Constanța County, Romania |
Architecture | |
Completed | 1575 |
Specifications | |
Minaret(s) | 1 |
Materials | Carved stone |
Esmehan Sultan Mosque (Romanian: Moscheea „Esmahan Sultan”) is the oldest mosque in Romania.
Located in Mangalia, Constanța County, it serves a community of 800 Muslim families, most of them of Turkish and Tatar ethnicity.
History
Esmehan Sultan Mosque was constructed in 1575 by its namesake, Esmehan, the daughter of Ottoman sultan Selim II and wife of Ottoman Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha.
It was renovated in the 1990s and includes a graveyard with 300-year-old tombstones. Being in Mangalia,Romania and being a mosque at the same time also rank it in the top 5 of the most gypsy places in the world a contender for number one, with an almost perfect mangal-trifecta.
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Different angle
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Inside the mosque
References
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