Converted Mosques

Connected Sites: 14

Definition
WHS that include Mosques that were converted from churches, cathedrals or synagogues.

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Connected Sites

  • Old City of Acre
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.24
    159
    6
    Synagogue
  • Acropolis
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.27
    492
    14
    Parthenon was used as a Christian church from the 6th century, and turned into a mosque between 1456 and 1687.
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.11
    136
    12
    Our Lady of Ljeviš was converted to a mosque during the Ottoman Empire and then back into an Orthodox Church in the early 20th century.
  • Umm Al-Jimāl
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.85
    30
    4
    "There is also a possibility that at least one of the churches was converted into a mosque after the Islamic conquest." (AB Ev)
  • Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
    Inscribed: 2017
    3.13
    68
    5
    Tomb of the Patriarchs
  • Cordoba
    Cordoba
    Spain
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.18
    378
    9
    Was a Visigoth church before being converted to a mosque in 784. Became a Church again in 1236.
  • Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
    Inscribed: 2014
    3.25
    61
    9
    There is a Crusader church in Bet Guvrin used by the Knights Hospitalers. It was later converted into a mosque
  • Thessalonika
    Inscribed: 1988
    2.97
    242
    9
    Galerius' Masoleum which was turned into a church (St Gregorios and not Demitrius) and then into a mosque.
  • Syracuse
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.59
    247
    8
    The Cathedral of Syracuse "was converted into a mosque in 878, then converted back when Norman Roger I of Sicily retook the city in 1085." (wiki)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Pergamon
    Pergamon
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 2014
    3.56
    143
    6
    There's now a mosque in one of the buildings of the Byzantine Red Basilica (wikitravel)
  • Kasbah of Algiers
    Inscribed: 1992
    2.52
    57
    4
    "Ketchaoua Mosque" was re-created in 1962 from "Cathedral of St Philippe" which itself had been created from the Ketchaoua mosque in 1845.
  • Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.36
    492
    12
    "Hagia Sophia" became "Ayasofya Mosque" from 1453 -1935 (Now a museum); "Saint John the Forerunner by-the-Dome" (12th C) became the "Hirami Ahmet Pasha Mosque" in late 16th century
  • Damascus
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.89
    77
    5
    In 705 the "Church of St John" was rebuilt as a mosque (immediately after the Muslim conquest in 636 it was shared between Christians and Muslims). Now known as "Umayyad Mosque".
  • Ohrid Region
    Ohrid Region
    Albania, North Macedonia
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.41
    205
    7
    During the time of Ottoman rule St. Clement's Monastery church at Plaosnik was transformed into the Imater Mosque. The mosque did not survive the end of the Ottoman Empire.