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Hamza Bey Mosque

Thessaloniki Municipality, Greece · built 1460

The Hamza Bey Mosque (Hamza Bey Camii) is a former mosque in Thessaloniki, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece. Built in 1460, during the Ottoman era, the mosque was abandoned in the 1820s. Modern Thessalonians commonly know it as Alkazar, after a cinema that operated in the premises for decades.

Mosque data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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