Kubelie Mosque
Mosque in Kavajë, Albania
41°11′02″N 19°33′44″E / 41.1840°N 19.5621°E / 41.1840; 19.5621The Kubelie Mosque or Kapllan Beu Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Kubelies) is a historic mosque in Kavajë, Albania. This mosque was originally built here in 1735 under the Ottomans by Kapllan Beu. The Old Mosque (Xhamija e Vjetër), stood on the main street of the city, about 70m to the east of the current one.[1]
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."[2] After being destroyed by the Communists in the 1970s, the new mosque has a very simple style and is made of concrete and white color while the original mosque was an Ottoman stone building with beautifully coloured decorations on the inside.[1]
See also
- Kapllan Pasha Tomb
- List of mosques in Albania
References
- ^ a b Kiel, Machiel (1990). Ottoman architecture in Albania, 1385-1912. Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. ISBN 978-92-9063-330-3. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
- ^ Nitsiakos, Basilēs G.; Nitsiakos, Vassilis (29 July 2010). On the Border: Transborder Mobility, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Along the Albanian-Greek Frontier. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 203. ISBN 978-3-643-10793-0. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
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