Qualla: Mustafa Pasha Mosque https://qualla.com/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/k/p/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mustafa Pasha Mosque https://qualla.com/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes Mustafa Pasha Mosque: Introduction https://qualla.com/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes/ Photo credit [User:Bgag|Bernard Gagnon]], CC BY-SA 4.0. Built in 1764 or 1765 by order of Sultan Mustafa III, the Mustafa Pasha Mosque stands in Arionos Square, in the medieval old town of Rhodes, next to a Turkish bathhouse the same sultan also commissioned. The square is small, quiet most afternoons, paved in worn stone. The mosque's facade is painted a vivid yellow that catches the late afternoon sun and glows. Its minaret was demolished in 1973 and has not been rebuilt. Its great marble portico is also gone, dismantled at some point in the 20th century. What remains is a rectangular building roughly fourteen meters across, topped by a central dome flanked by two unusual rectangular vaults, the only example of vaulted construction in any Ottoman mosque on Rhodes.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/k/p/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes-wp/swkp-mustafa-pasha-mosque-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mustafa Pasha Mosque: Many flags https://qualla.com/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes/ Photo credit Notafly, CC BY-SA 3.0. Rhodes has been many things. A Hellenistic kingdom whose Colossus once welcomed ships at the harbor mouth. A Roman province. A Byzantine theme. The headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller, who lost it to Suleiman the Magnificent's siege in 1522 after a six-month defense. Ottoman ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/k/p/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes-wp/swkp-mustafa-pasha-mosque-many-flags.mp3 0:06 2 full Mustafa Pasha Mosque: The architecture https://qualla.com/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes/ Photo credit Francesco Ugolini, CC BY-SA 2.0. Inside, the central dome covers the mihrab, the prayer niche oriented toward Mecca, and rests on a square plan. To either side, the rectangular vaults running east to west fill the corners that a single dome would have left awkward; this solution to the geometry of square room in...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/k/p/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes-wp/swkp-mustafa-pasha-mosque-the-architecture.mp3 0:06 3 full Mustafa Pasha Mosque: The minbar https://qualla.com/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0. The minbar, the stepped pulpit from which the imam delivered Friday sermons, is among the largest surviving marble minbars on the island. Pieces of grey marble assembled with care. An ornamental top decorated with Arabic calligraphy. Beneath the calligraphy runs an inscription in...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/k/p/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes-wp/swkp-mustafa-pasha-mosque-the-minbar.mp3 0:06 4 full Mustafa Pasha Mosque: Care and continuity https://qualla.com/mustafa-pasha-mosque-rhodes/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0. Both the mosque and the octagonal stone fountain in its courtyard were registered as protected monuments by the Greek Ministry of Culture in 1948, the year after the Dodecanese officially joined Greece. The yellow facade and the lead roof were renovated in the mid-2010s. The mina...

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