Yeni Mosque

Yeni Mosque - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Yeni Mosque (, from , "New Mosque") is a historical mosque in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was built by Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli in 1902 for the city's Dönmeh community, crypto-Jewish converts to Islam. However, when the Donmeh left the city during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, it was used to house the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki in 1925.The Dönmeh: the Judeo-Islamic Mystery of Thessaloniki , Albena Shkodrova, Balkan Travellers.com Today it serves as an exhibition center. Read more on Wikipedia

type: building
date from: 1902

Source: en.wikipedia.org