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About
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. Afterwards, it functioned as the city's archaeological museum for a brief time before the current museum's construction. The structure is owned by the municipality and served as an exhibition center, and was occasionally lent to the Muslim community of the city; the first occasion being for worship in 2012, some 90 years after it was closed. The mosque has occasionally reopened for major Islamic festivals during the 2020s.
Nearby
Places within walking or a short drive, best first.
- White Tower of ThessalonikiCastle1.4 km away
- HeptapyrgioCastle3.2 km away
- Bey HamamArchaeological site2.5 km away
- Yeni HamamArchaeological site2.7 km away
- Cemetery BasilicaArchaeological site1.1 km away
- ToumpitsaArchaeological site1.3 km away
- Roman PalaceArchaeological site1.8 km away
- Apsidal HallArchaeological site1.8 km away
- RotundaArchaeological site2 km away
- Early Christian Cemetery of EvagelistriaArchaeological site2.3 km away
- Archaiologikos choros voreias eisodou Stathmou Agias SofiasArchaeological site2.3 km away
- Romaiki AgoraArchaeological site2.5 km away