New Mosque

The Yeni Mosque is a in the city of , northern . It was built by Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli in 1902, during the Ottoman era, for the city's Dönmeh community, crypto-Jewish converts to Islam.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: former mosque (today an exhibition center) in Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Also known as: “Yeni Mosque, Thessaloniki”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include White Tower of Thessaloniki and University of Macedonia.

Photo: Haneburger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of , capital of the in northern . is situated 1½ km northwest of New Mosque.

University
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The is a public university in , , Greece. Founded as School of Higher Industrial Studies of Thessaloniki in 1948 and started its first operation during the academic year 1957–1958, it is the second largest university in the city. is situated 1 km north of New Mosque.

Museum
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The Folk Life and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace is located in , , . It was founded in 1973 by the Macedonian Educational Association and is housed in the building known as Old Government House or Villa Modiano, which was built in 1906 by the architect Eli Modiano, on a 5 hectare plot of land by the sea, for the banker Jacob Modiano. is situated 700 metres southwest of New Mosque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Triandría and Charilaou.

Suburb
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Triandria is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality in the , , . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality , of which it is a municipal unit.

Suburb
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is a district in eastern , Greece. The district was named after the banker and entrepreneur Epameinontas Charilaos, the landowner in the area, who had origins from the of Thrace.

Neighborhood
Saranta Ekklisies or 40 Ekklisies is a neighbourhood in , . It is located next to the . It was created in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange by Greek refugees from the city of in Eastern Thrace.

New Mosque

Latitude
40.61548° or 40° 36′ 56″ north
Longitude
22.95674° or 22° 57′ 24″ east
Open location code
8GG4JX84+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 162034659
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­mosque
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q1163656
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Urdu—“New Mosque” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Xhamia e Re (Selanik)”
  • Albanian: “Xhamia e Re”
  • Arabic: “المسجد الجديد”
  • Asturian: “Mezquita Nueva”
  • Bulgarian: “Йени джамия”
  • Chinese: “新清真寺”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المسجد الجديد”
  • Esperanto: “Nova Moskeo”
  • French: “Nouvelle Mosquée”
  • German: “Yeni Cami”
  • Greek: “Γενί Τζαμί Θεσσαλονίκης”
  • Greek: “Γενί Τζαμί”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Yeni Thessaloniki”
  • Italian: “Nuova moschea di Salonicco”
  • Ladino: “Yeni Djami”
  • Macedonian: “Јени џамија”
  • Malay: “Masjid Baru”
  • Thai: “มัสยิดเยนี (เทสซาโลนีกี)”
  • Thai: “มัสยิดเยนี”
  • Turkish: “Yeni Cami”
  • Turkish: “Yeni Camii”
  • Urdu: “مسجد الجدید (تھیسالونیکی)”
  • Urdu: “مسجد الجدید”

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