Esmahan Sultan Mosque
Esmahan Sultan Mosque (Romanian: Moscheea Esmahan Sultan) is the oldest mosque in Romania.
Esmahan Sultan Mosque | |
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Moscheea Esmahan Sultan | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | Sunni Islam |
Location | |
Location | Oituz Street 1, Mangalia, Constanța County, Romania |
Architecture | |
Type | Mosque |
Completed | 1575 |
Specifications | |
Minaret(s) | 1 |
Materials | Carved stone |
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, Ismihan, 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.
- Different angle
- Inside the mosque
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Esmahan Sultan Mosque. |
- (in Romanian) Moscheea ridicată de prinţesa Esmahan, Jurnalul Naţional
- Muftiyat of Romania - contains detailed information about mosques in Romania
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