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Ballia Mosque

Elbasan, Italy

Ballia Mosque

The Ballije Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Ballies) was a mosque in the center of the city of Elbasan, Middle Albania built originally under the name of Hasan Balizade Mosque (Xhamia e Hasan Balizades) or Blue Mosque (Xhamia Blu) in 1608. After the communist dictatorship demolished the structure in 1967

, a highly modernist and Western-style concrete building was erected on its site in 2023 which is also known today as the Mosque of Time (Xhamia e Kohës).

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