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Veli Pasha Mosque

Ρέθυμνο, Italy

Veli Pasha Mosque

The Veli Pasha Mosque (Greek: Βελή Πασά Τζαμί, from Turkish: Veli Paşa Camii), also known as the Mastaba Mosque (Greek: Τζαμί του Μασταμπά) from its location, is a former mosque in the town of Rethymno, on the island of Crete, in south Greece. Originally built in the mid-17th century, during the Ott

oman era, shortly after the fall of Rethymno to the Ottomans, the mosque was abandoned in the 1910s, and, since 2008, was repurposed as the Paleontological Museum of Rethymno (Greek: Παλαιοντολογικό Μουσείο Ρεθύμνου), a paleontological history museum for the island of Crete, administered by the Goulandris Natural History Museum.

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