🏛️ Yeni Mosque, Thessaloniki

Greece · Europe · 40.62°N, 22.96°E

The Yeni Mosque is a mosque in the city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. It was built by Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli in 1902, during the Ottoman era, for the city's Dönmeh community, crypto-Jewish converts to Islam. However, when the Dönmeh had to leave the city during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the mosque was abandoned.

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Country	Greece
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	40.62°N, 22.96°E · view on map

Yeni Mosque, Thessaloniki is located in Greece, in Europe.

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