Fethije mosque

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Side view of the Fethije Mosque prior to the recent restoration, when the building was plastered again.

The Fethije Mosque or Fetichié Mosque ( Greek Φετιχιέ τζαμί , Turkish Fethiye Camii , Mosque of Conquest ' ) is an Ottoman mosque from the 15th or 17th century in central Athens , Greece .

history

The mosque in the 1830s, with the Church of the Taxiarches to the right

The Fethije Mosque is located on the northern side of the ancient Roman Agora in Athens, near the Tower of the Winds , and was built on the ruins of a Christian basilica from the Middle Byzantine period (8th / 9th centuries). The Christian church was converted into a mosque in 1456/58, shortly after the Ottoman conquest of the Duchy of Athens and before Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror visited the city in 1458.

Only a fragment of the mosque's mihrāb has survived; the building itself was destroyed and replaced by the current structure from 1668 to 1670. The new mosque includes a porch and a large rectangular main hall crowned by a dome supported by four pillars. The central dome is flanked by half-domes on each side as well as smaller domes at each corner. The porch is supported by five arches, each crowned by a small dome, resting on brickwork on the sides and four pillars in the middle. In Ottoman times it was commonly known as the wheat market Mosque ( Τζαμί του Σταροπάζαρου known). During the brief occupation of the city by Venetian soldiers in the Morea War (October 1687 - May 1688), the mosque was converted by the Venetians into a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Dionysius the Areopagite .

After the outbreak of the Greek Revolution , the now disused mosque was used as a school by the Filomousos Eteria of Athens. Around this time, shortly after the end of the war, the mosque's minaret was torn down. From 1834 to the early 20th century, the mosque was used successively as a barracks, a military prison and finally a military bakery. Additional additions were made to the building for the bakery's ovens. Since the early 20th century it has been used primarily as a storage place for finds from excavations in the agora or the acropolis .

In autumn 2010, the Greek Ministry of Culture ordered the building to be cleared of the antiquities stored there and to be restored and opened to the public. The decision was approved by Greece's Central Archeology Council in 2013.

literature

  • Thanasis Giochalas, Tonia Kafetzaki: Athens. Tracing the city through history and literature . Estia, Athens 2013, ISBN 978-960-05-1559-6 (Greek: Αθήνα. Ιχνηλατώντας την πόλη με οδηγό την ιστορία και τη λογοτεχνία .).

Web links

Commons : Fethije Mosque (Athens)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Φετιχιέ τζαμί. In: Archeology of the City of Athens. National Research Foundation, accessed April 10, 2011 (Greek).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Θα αποκατασταθεί το Φετιχιέ Τζαμί στη Ρωμαϊκή Αγορά. Eleftherotypia , April 19, 2013, accessed June 22, 2014 (Greek).
  3. ↑ Thanasis Giochalas, Tonia Kafetzaki: Athens. Athens 2013, pp. 20, 75.
  4. ↑ a b Φετιχιέ τζαμί: Περιγραφή. Greek Ministry of Culture, accessed June 22, 2014 (Greek).
  5. ↑ Thanasis Giochalas, Tonia Kafetzaki: Athens. Athens 2013, pp. 22, 75.
  6. ↑ Thanasis Giochalas, Tonia Kafetzaki: Athens. Athens 2013, p. 75.
  7. ↑ Thanasis Giochalas, Tonia Kafetzaki: Athens. Athens 2013, pp. 75-76.
  8. ↑ N. Kontrarou-Rassia: Τα αρχαία φεύγουν, το Φετιχιέ Τζαμί έρχεται. Eleftherotypia, October 4, 2010, accessed June 22, 2014 (Greek).

Coordinates: 37 ° 58 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 23 ° 43 ′ 37.1 ″  E