Fetichie mosque
The Fetichié Mosque or Fethije Mosque ( Greek Φετιχιέ Τζαμί Fetichie Tzami , Turkish Fethiye Camii , Albanian Xhamia e Fetijës ; 'Mosque of Conquest') is a mosque built in the 1430s in the city of Ioannina in Greece during the Ottoman Empire .
history
The Fetichie Mosque was built shortly after the Turkish conquest in 1430 in the city's inner castle, near the ruins of an earlier Byzantine church dedicated to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel . Originally it was a wooden structure, which was replaced by a stone building in 1611. In 1795 it was extensively redesigned and rebuilt by Tepedelenli Ali Pascha ( Ali Pascha from Tepelena ). He made the Fetichie Mosque his main mosque, even though he was himself a Sufi follower of the Bektashi order. Ali Pasha's family's graves are in the mosque, his own just outside. However, the head of Tepedelendli Ali Pasha is still in Constantinople .
After a large part of Epirus fell to Greece in 1913, the building served as a makeshift room for the military hospital.
During several years of preservation and maintenance work on the building from 2004 through the 8th Ephoria of Byzantine Antiquities, restoration work on wall paintings and the stucco decoration of the mihrāb were also carried out. Since 2008 the mosque has housed a permanent exhibition about the city of Ioannina in the late Ottoman period and the life and work of Ali Pasha.
literature
- Α. Καραμπερίδου, Α. Τσιάρα: Το Φετιχιέ Τζαμί στο Κάστρο των Ιωαννίνων. Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού- 8η Ε.Β.Α, Ιωάννινα 2008.
Web links
- Κάστρο Ιωαννίνων, Το Φετιχιέ τζαμί Ministry of Culture and Sport (Greek)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Έκθεση "Η πόλη των Ιωαννίνων και ο Αλή Πασάς" . In: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού [Ministry of Culture] (ed.): Αρχαιολογικά Μουσεία και Συλλογές στην Ελλάδα . Athens 2008, ISBN 978-960-214-740-5 , pp. 136 .
Coordinates: 39 ° 40 ′ 14.5 ″ N , 20 ° 51 ′ 47.6 ″ E