Hasan Pasha Mosque
The Hasan Pasha Mosque ( Greek Τζαμί του Κιουτσούκ Χασάν or Γιαλί Τζαμί ) is a historic Ottoman mosque at the Venetian port of the city of Chania in Crete . It was built by an Armenian architect and is the first mosque built in Crete. The Hasan Pasha Mosque is currently used as an exhibition space, among other things.
The Hasan Pasha Mosque was built after the Ottoman conquest of the city of Chania (Turkish Hanya ) in 1645 in honor of the first Turkish garrison commander Küçük Hasan Pasha on the site of a small Byzantine church. From 1880 porticos with seven small domes were added on the north and west side in place of the originally roofless arcades . The mosque served as a place of prayer until 1923, when the Turkish inhabitants of the island emigrated during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey . After that, it was successively used as a storage area, folk art museum, tourist information office and as the Archaeological Museum of Chania.
The mosque has a cubic main building with a large dome that is supported by four elaborately constructed stone arches, next to it are six smaller domes. Palm trees were planted in the mosque courtyard and there were graves of various pashas and janissaries . The minaret of the Hasan Pasha Mosque was demolished in the 20th century. When the mosque was renovated in 1998, it was not rebuilt.
Web links
- Hassan Pasha Mosque in Crete - Greece. Retrieved January 15, 2016 .
- Chania - The Mosque of Kioutschuk Hassan ( Memento from June 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 35 ° 31 ′ 2.5 ″ N , 24 ° 1 ′ 4.1 ″ E