Gazi Khassim mosque

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The Gazi Khassim Pasha Mosque

The mosque Gazi Khassim Pascha ( Hungarian Gázi Kászim pasa dzsámija , Turkish Gazi Kasım Paşa Camii ), today the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Gyertyaszentelő Boldogasszony-templom) , is a former mosque in the center of Pécs (German five churches ) in Hungary today used as a Roman Catholic Church . The prayer room is accessible as an art museum for an admission fee.

The mosque on the central square ( Széchenyi tér ) is the best preserved Islamic building in Hungary. Arched windows are arranged in two rows on the facades of the south-east, south-west and north-east of the building : 3-3 and 4-4-part. Inside, some Turkish decorations and Ottoman inscriptions from the Koran can be clearly seen on the plaster parts that have been preserved.

history

Plate with the first sura of the Koran, which in 1986 still in the socialist period was attached

Gazi Khassim Pascha had the mosque built in the mid-16th century. The building was erected on the walls of the old St. Bartholomew Church from the 12th century. The church comes from a time when the proportion of Hungarian- German Germans and Pechenegs of Turkic origin was even higher in the region. The Bartholomäuskirche was destroyed shortly after the city was conquered by the Ottomans in 1543 , but the remaining parts of the crypt can still be viewed today. In the 1660s, the Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi reported on the mosque built in its place.

After the Christian reconquest of the city, the mosque was changed in the 18th and 20th centuries. After the minaret was initially expanded and enlarged, it was completely demolished. Only the core of the mosque remained, including the octagonal tambour, which is covered by a dome. The dome was initially designed according to the pattern of traditional Orthodox cathedrals . The Turkish pulpit ( minbar ) and the women's balcony ( mehfil ) inside have been destroyed, and the mihrab is no longer the original. The two Turkish baths in front of the sacristies (today holy water) were taken from the Pasha's former hammam next to the church.

literature

  • Győző Gerő: Turkish monuments in Hungary. Corvina, Budapest 1976, ISBN 978-963-13-4706-7 , p. 15f.
  • H. Stierlin. Turkey - Architecture from Seljuks to Ottomans - Taschen Weltarchitektur - ISBN 382287857X

Web links

Commons : Gazi Khassim Mosque  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 4 ′ 37 ″  N , 18 ° 13 ′ 40 ″  E