Alaca Imaret Mosque

Coordinates: 40°38′21″N 22°56′59″E / 40.63917°N 22.94972°E

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Alaca Imaret Mosque Αλατζά Ιμαρέτ
Alaca Imaret after restoration
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
District	Thessaloniki
Province	Thessaloniki
Region	Macedonia
Location
Location	Thessaloniki, Greece
Architecture
Type	Mosque
Style	Islamic, Ottoman architecture
Completed	1484 or 1487
Specifications
Minaret(s)	1, now destroyed
Materials	stone and brick

Alaca Imaret Mosque (Turkish: Alaca İmaret Camii) or Ishak Pasha Mosque (Greek: Αλατζά Ιμαρέτ), literally the "colourful mosque", is a 15th-century Ottoman mosque in Thessaloniki, Greece.^[1]

Architecture

It was built by order of Ishak Pasha in 1484 or 1487.^[1] It consists of a mosque with an imaret (public charity kitchen). The mosque and imaret are not in use anymore. The mosque has a reverse T plan common to early Ottoman architecture, the prayer hall is covered by two large domes, it has a portico covered by five smaller domes. It had one minaret, which was destroyed after 1912, after Thessaloniki was conquered by the Greek Army and became part of the modern Greek state. It is under restoration till now.

References

^ ^a ^b The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelović (1453-1474), Théoharis Stavrides, pagge 413, 2001

Picture of the building from above. [1]

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Principality of Samos (1834)
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Mosques	Alaca Imaret Mosque Hamza Bey Mosque Lembet Mosque Yeni Mosque
Baths	Bey Hamam Pasha Hamam [el] Yeni Hamam Yahudi Hamam
Fortifications	Heptapyrgion (Yedikule) White Tower
Mansions	Atatürk Museum Karipeion Melathron Government House (Konak) M. Kapanci Villa A. Kapanci Villa Mordoch Villa [el] Villa Allatini Casa Bianca Villa [el]
Other	Bedesten of Thessaloniki Musa Baba türbe Fountain Square Pasha's Gardens [el] Allatini Mills

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