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Murat Reis Mosque

Ρόδος, Italy

Murat Reis Mosque

The Murat Reis Mosque (Greek: Τζαμί Μουράτ Ρέις, from Turkish: Murat Reis Camii) is a former mosque located within the old walled town of Rhodes, on the eponymous island, in the South Aegean region of southern Greece. Completed in c. 1623 during the Ottoman era, the mosque was named in honour of Mur

at Reis the Elder, an important admiral of the Ottoman Navy. Abandoned in the 1940s, the former mosque remains intact, although it was in need of restoration and is not open for worship. It is notable for its unusual minaret design, a post-Ottoman addition that replaced the original structure when the island was under Italian administration after the Italo-Turkish War.

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