About Yeni Mosque, Thessaloniki
The Yeni Mosque (Greek: Γενί Τζαμί, from Turkish: Yeni Cami, lit. 'new 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.
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- French School of Thessaloniki
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