Aslan Pasha Mosque
The Aslan Pasha Mosque ( Greek τζαμί Ασλάν πασά ) was an Ottoman mosque in the north of the city of Ioannina , now in Greece . The mosque was built in 1618/19 within the city fortress and replaced the church of St. Johannan, which was razed after an anti-Ottoman revolt by Dionysus the philosopher in 1611.
Since 1933 it has housed the Municipal Folklore Museum of Ioannina with its traditional costumes, historical everyday objects and handicraft collections that are well worth seeing. Under the mosque are the catacombs and prisons in which many resistance fighters were executed during the Turkish period. An Ottoman library has been preserved not far from the mosque.
Web links
Commons : Aslan Pasha Mosque - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Lambert Schneider , Christoph Höcker : Greek mainland (Dumont art travel guide). DuMont-Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7701-2936-9 .
Coordinates: 39 ° 40 ′ 24.8 ″ N , 20 ° 51 ′ 36.9 ″ E