Defterdar Mosque

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Defterdar mosque with fountain in December 2019
The mosque the day after the earthquake in July 2017
Defterdar mosque with fountain 2009

The Defterdar Mosque ( Greek Defterdar Τζαμί , also Τζαμί / Τέμενος Κω Mosque of Kos ; Turkish Defterdar Camii, Defterdar İbrâhim Efendi Camii ) was a house of prayer in the city ​​of Kos on the Greek island of Kos . It has not been used as a house of prayer for a long time and was opened on May 20/21. Badly damaged in an earthquake in July 2017 .

Surname

As Defterdâr ( Ottoman دفتردار) was designated the chief financial officer in the Ottoman Empire . The builder of the mosque, İbrahim Efendi, was such a defterdâr .

location

The mosque is located on Platia Eleftherias ( Freedom Square ). It is around 120 meters from the Mandraki port in Kos town. In contrast to the buildings erected after the earthquake of 1933, the mosque stands conspicuously "across" the main axes of the square and the surrounding buildings.

history

The Defterdar Mosque was built in 1725 under the rule of the Ottomans over Kos (1522 to 1912). The building had not been used as a prayer house for a long time; it housed kiosks and a café.

The mosque was badly damaged by the earthquake on the night of July 20-21, 2017 and the minaret collapsed. A rebuilding of the minaret is discussed again and again. The dome over the well was so badly damaged and moved on the foundations that it had to be removed.

Buildings and surroundings

The Defterdar Mosque was built as a two-story domed mosque. The main building is about 16 meters long and 12 meters wide. The bright red domed roof is a special sign of this mosque (the red roof of the fountain was badly damaged in 2017). The mosque consists of an anteroom and the large main room on the first floor.

Opposite the mosque is the former Casa del Fascio ("House of the Fascists"), on the left the market hall (Dimotiki Agora) and on the right the Archaeological Museum , all three of which were built by the Italian occupying forces after the 1933 earthquake. Their architectural style is indicative of the time of the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese islands. The style of the architecture was consciously adapted to the ideas of the new rulers, was free of “oriental influences” and based on the Roman Empire in connection with fascist “ideals”. The mosque in the oriental style therefore forms a strong contrast to these buildings from the Italian era.

In the east, behind the mosque, there is the gate of the taxes , through which there is now access to the Agora excavation site , and a round defense tower (southeast bastion), which was part of the medieval city wall. On the southwest side of the mosque there is a fountain for ritual cleansing before prayer .

The mosque is owned by the Islamic community of Kos.

literature

  • Giorgos Stalidis: Defterdar Mosque. In: Ersi Brouskari (Ed.): Ottoman Architecture in Greece. Hellenic Ministry of Culture - Directorate of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities, Athens 2008, p. 389.

Web links

Commons : Defterdar Mosque  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ellen Katja Jaeckel: Kos , Merian live, ISBN 978-3-8342-1989-3 , p. 41 f.
  2. ↑ Kos Mosque , website: kos.gr.
  3. ↑ Ellen Katja Jaeckel: Kos , Merian live, ISBN 978-3-8342-1989-3 , p. 42.
  4. ↑ Renovated Archaeological Museum Is A Must-See on Kos , website: greece-is.com from March 15, 2017.
  5. ^ Italian Architects and Scholars in the Levant. The case of Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands under the Italian Fascist Rule , p. 94.
  6. ↑ This is especially true after Cesare Maria De Vecchi replaced the previous governor of the Italian Aegean Islands ( Dodecanese ), Mario Lago , in 1936 (see Marc Dubin: The Dodecanese and the East Aegean Islands, p. 436ff).
  7. ↑ Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Κω , website: kos.gr.

Coordinates: 36 ° 53 ′ 36 ″  N , 27 ° 17 ′ 20 ″  E