Kavajë Mosque
Also known as: Kavajë Mosque
mosque in the city of Kavaja, Albania
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Overview
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The Kavajë Mosque, known in Turkish as Kubbeli Camii and in Albanian as Xhamia e Kubeliesë, is an Ottoman-era mosque in the town of Kavajë in Tirana County, Albania. It is also written Kubelie Mosque. Its recorded address is near Sheshi Demokracia (Democracy Square). According to one source, the old mosque stood on the town's main street. The building forms part of the Ottoman religious and urban heritage of Kavajë.
History
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The mosque was built under Ottoman rule in 1735–1736. One source credits its original construction to Kaplan Bey.
After Albania was declared the world's first atheist state in 1967, the mosque was demolished in the 1970s.
From Wikipedia
The Kubelie Mosque, also known as the Kapllan Beu Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Kubelies), is a mosque in Kavajë, Albania. The Old Mosque (Xhamija e Vjetër) was built in 1735 CE under the Ottomans by Kapllan Beu. This original mosque stood on the main street of the city, about 70 metres (230 ft) to the east of the current mosque.
Also named after its founder Kapllan Pasha, the Kubelie mosque had been described as a "grand, beautiful building, with a dome and a peristyle. Marble facades rise under the cypress trees with their Byzantine columns and their Arabian arches." After being destroyed by the Communist dictatorship in the 1970s, the newly built mosque has a very simple and modernist style, is made of concrete and is completely painted with white color while the original mosque was a traditional Ottoman stone building with beautifully coloured decorations on the inside and a clay tile roof.
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Sources
Wikipedia (ar): https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A
Wikipedia (de): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubelie-Moschee
Wikipedia (en): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubelie_Mosque
Wikipedia (id): https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Kubelie
Wikipedia (tr): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubbeli_Camii