Suleymaniye Mosque (Rhodes)

Suleymaniye Mosque
Basic information
Location	Rhodes, Greece
Geographic coordinates	36°26′40″N 28°13′27″E / 36.44444°N 28.22417°E
Affiliation	Islam
Municipality	Rhodes
District	Rhodes
State	Greece
Province	South Aegean
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]

Gallery

• 

  View of the mosque and the city of Rhodes

• 

  Domes of the mosque

• 

  Interior of the mosque

References

1. "Suleymaniye Mosque". http://www.rhodesguide.org/. Retrieved 26 July 2014. Today, the mosque serves as a museum and can be visited on specific days. External link in |website= (help)
2. "Religious Monuments". http://www.rhodes.gr. Municipality of Rhodes. External link in |website= (help)
3. Tataki, A. B. (2000). Rhodes, Lindos, Kamiros, Filerimos: the Palace of the Grand Masters and the museum. Ekdotike Athenon. p. 45. ISBN 978-960-213-007-0. The first to be built, immediately after the conquest of Rhodes, was the Mosque of Suleiman. In 1 808 the mosque, which today can be seen at the end of Sokratous street, was
4. Currie, Jean (1 May 1989). Rhodes and the Dodecanese. Cape. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-224-02614-7. After Suleiman captured Rhodes in 1522, the Turks immediately began building a mosque to be named after the conqueror himself. Nearly four centuries later, in the first decade of the nineteenth century, it was rebuilt. Today the rose-pink ...