Suleymaniye Mosque (Rhodes)

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Suleymaniye Mosque
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Basic information
Location Rhodes, Greece
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Affiliation Islam
State Greece
Province South Aegean
District Rhodes
Municipality Rhodes
Ecclesiastical or organizational status serves as museum[1]
Architectural type Mosque
Founder Suleiman the Magnificent
Completed after 1522
reconstructed in 1808
Minaret(s) 1
Minaret height 34.5 metres (113 ft)[2]

The Suleymaniye Mosque or the Mosque of Suleiman (Turkish: Süleymaniye Camii) is a mosque originally built after the Ottoman conquest of Rhodes in 1522 and reconstructed in 1808. It was named by the Sultan Suleiman to commemorate his conquest of Rhodes.

This mosque was the first mosque in the town of Rhodes, built soon after Ottomans besieged it and captured it in 1522. In 1808 the current building of mosque was built through the reconstruction of this first mosque.[3] Its plaster is rose-pink. The most of the mosque was reconstructed using materials of the buildings which existed at the same place in the earlier period. The pillars of the outer arcade belonged to the Christian church.[4]

Europa Nostra gave this mosque an honorary distinction in 2006.[2]

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