Geni Mosque

[…] The last mosque that was built in Thessaloniki was Yeni Djami (=New Mosque). It is the only mosque ever built outside the city walls, at the Hamidiye area· It was constructed in 1902 at the cross-section of Archeological Museum Street (Haci Hayri Pasa) and Praxitelous Street (Sezai Pasa) by Dönme, the Thessaloniki Jews that converted to Islam, many of which resided in the nearby area at the time. After 1925 it was used as an Archeological Museum. According to the architects that studied the monument, this mosque is “an amalgam of influences and styles, revealing the mix of European and Islamic culture and identity of its builders”, “a typical work of eclecticism, where renaissance and baroque lines prevail, but with obvious Byzantine, Islamic and neoclassical influences”, “a static, plane, geometric building, which creates a strong impression, stemming primarily from the stability of its construction and the symmetry of its clear geometric forms”.

Vasilis Demetriades, Topography of Thessaloniki during the Period of Ottoman Rule, 1430-1912, Society for Macedonian Studies [=Macedonian Library n. 61], Thessaloniki, 1983

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