Kubelie Mosque

Kubelie Mosque
Xhamia e Kubelies
The mosque in 1995
Kubelie Mosque is located in Albania
Kubelie Mosque
Location of the mosque in Albania
Religion
AffiliationIslam
Mosque
StatusActive
Location
LocationKavajë
CountryAlbania
Interactive map of Kubelie Mosque
Coordinates41°11′02″N 19°33′44″E / 41.1840°N 19.5621°E / 41.1840; 19.5621
Architecture
Type
StyleOttoman
Specifications
Dome1
Minaret1

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.[1]

Old Kubelie 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."[2] 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.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Kiel, Machiel (1990). Ottoman architecture in Albania, 1385-1912. Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. ISBN 978-92-9063-330-3. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Nitsiakos, Basilēs G.; Nitsiakos, Vassilis (July 29, 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 July 10, 2012.

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