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Lembet Mosque

Σταυρούπολη, Italy

Lembet Mosque

The Lembet Mosque (Greek: Τζαμί του Λεμπέτ, Turkish: Lembet Camii) is a former mosque in the city of Thessaloniki, Pavlos Melas, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece, named after the Lembet barracks, now known as Pavlos Melas barracks. It was the last mosque built in Thessaloniki, during the Ot

toman era, before the city's incorporation into the Kingdom of Greece in 1912 following the First Balkan War. In 2013, the mosque's original name, Ferideh Hanim Mosque (Greek: Φεριντέ Χανούμ Τζαμί, Turkish: Feride Hanım Camii), was discovered thanks to an old inscription. It was named after Ferideh Hanim, the wife of Thessaloniki's then governor, Hassan Fehmi Pasha.

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