Yeni Cami (Komotini)
The Yeni Cami ( Greek Γενί Τζαμί Gení Tzamí , German 'New Mosque' ) or ( Νέο Τέμενος Néo Témenos ) is an Ottoman building in the Greek city of Komotini from 1585. It is the only surviving building in Greece with original Iznik ceramics from the end of the 16th century, the height of the Turkish ceramic industry in Iznik . The Yeni Cami is located in the center of Komotini, directly next to it is the seat of the Muftiate of the Rhodope Mountains. The mosque has a prayer hall with a square floor plan and was redesigned in neoclassical style at the end of the Ottoman rule . The clock tower from 1884 is characteristic of the modernization. In the neighborhood there are several Turkish baths ( hammams ) from the Ottoman period. The Yeni Cami (New Mosque) was built in front of the Old Mosque of Komotini from 1608.
The Yeni Cami was donated by Ekmekçioğlu Ahmet Paşa, who served as the “chief economist” of the Turkish sultans Akhmet I and Osman II (1618–1622) in the first decades of the 17th century . The külliye des Ekmekçioğlu Ahmet included a medresse , a double Turkish bath (hammam) and a mekteb (school).
The current shape of the mosque dates back to 1902. Between 2007 and 2008 the mosque was cleaned and restored. The brick structure with a dome and a minaret , which in turn has a Scherefe (balcony), is today one of the few Ottoman mosques in Greece that can still be used as such by the Muslim or Turkish minority.
literature
- Machiel Kiel : Observations on the History of Northern Greece during the Ottoman Rule. The Turkish Monuments of Komotini and Serres. In: Institute for Balkan Studies (Ed.): Balkan Studies. Volume 12, Number 2, Thessaloniki 1971, ISSN 2241-1674 , pp. 415-462. PDF online
Remarks
- ^ Kiel: Observations on the History of Northern Greece during the Ottoman Rule. The Turkish Monuments of Komotini and Serres. 1971, p. 422.
Web links
- Τέμενος Γενί Τζαμί (Greek)
Coordinates: 41 ° 7 ′ 8 ″ N , 25 ° 24 ′ 17.5 ″ E