Category:Hisar Mosque (Aydın)

Hisar Mosque is a mosque in Didim. The mosque, converted from a church, is located in Hisar Neighborhood.

It was built as a Greek Orthodox church in 1830. The building, later converted into a mosque, was registered as an immovable cultural heritage by the İzmir II Numbered Board for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Assets on 29 April 1998 with decision number 7720. Restoration works of the mosque, owned by the General Directorate of Foundations, which began in 2020, were completed in November 2021. In July 2022, it was closed for worship because a breach was detected in one of its walls.

Key facts

Type: church building, mosque
Located in: Aegean Region

Facts from Wikidata.

Coordinates: 37.385944, 27.256000Open in Google Maps

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Sources

The text on this page is translated from: Hisar Camii (Didim) (tr.wikipedia.org), as of 27 January 2025

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