Halil Bey Mosque
The Halil Bey Mosque is a former mosque in the town of Kavala, in the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region of Greece. Built in the 1530s during the Ottoman era, the mosque was abandoned in the 1820s and is now a museum open to visitors.Photo: DocWoKav, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: Mosque in Kavala, Greece
- Also known as: “Halil Bey mosque”
- Address: Μεχμέτ Αλή, Καβάλα
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The house of Mohamed Ali and Fortress of Kavala.
The house of Mohamed Ali
Museum
Photo: XeresNelro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The house of Mohamed Ali is a museum, which is situated 140 metres south of Halil Bey Mosque.
Fortress of Kavala
Photo: Steve-milea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fortress of Kavala is situated 200 metres north of Halil Bey Mosque.
Aqueduct of Kavala
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Aqueduct of Kavala, popularly known as the Kamares, is a well-preserved aqueduct in the city of Kavala, Greece, and is one of the city's landmarks. Aqueduct of Kavala is situated 500 metres north of Halil Bey Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neos Zygos and Palaia Kavala.
Neos Zygos
Village
Neos Zygos is a village in the Kavala regional unit of Greece. It was created in the 1990s with a government grant for the housing of returned Pontic Greek expatriates from the Soviet Union. Neos Zygos is situated 7 km northwest of Halil Bey Mosque.
Palaia Kavala
Village
Photo: PLAKLE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palaia Kavala is a village, which is situated 8 km north of Halil Bey Mosque.
Nea Karvali
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nea Karvali is a resort village and a community of the Kavala municipality in northern Greece. Most of the inhabitants are descendants of Cappadocian Greeks who arrived from Karvali following the Greek-Turkish population exchange in 1924. Nea Karvali is situated 9 km east of Halil Bey Mosque.
Halil Bey Mosque
- Categories: mosque, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Kavala, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.93257° or 40° 55′ 57″ northLongitude
24.41518° or 24° 24′ 55″ eastOpen location code
8GG6WCM8+23OpenStreetMap ID
way 231433536OpenStreetMap feature
building=mosqueOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q58627086
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Uzbek—“Halil Bey Mosque” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Xhamia e Halil Beut”
- Arabic: “مسجد هليل باي”
- Azerbaijani: “Xəlil bəy məscidi”
- Bengali: “হালিল বে মসজিদ”
- Bulgarian: “Халил бей джамия”
- Fulah: “Halil Bey Mosque”
- German: “Halil Bey Moschee”
- Greek: “Τζαμί Χαλίλ Μπέη (Παλιά Μουσική)”
- Greek: “Τζαμί Χαλίλ Μπέη”
- Indonesian: “Masjid Halil Bey”
- Indonesian: “Masjid Khalil Bey”
- Turkish: “Halil Bey Camii (Yunanistan)”
- Turkish: “Halil Bey Camii”
- Uzbek: “Halil bey masjidi”
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