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made it visible from a larger distance. The location was not picked in chance, as the founding of
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on 24 June 1881 (O.S.). After that gradually began a deliberate reshaping of the urban plan of Arta aiming the removal of all those elements that reminded and bespoke of the town's recent
Ottoman past. It is theorized that the Sultan Mehmed Mosque was one of the first Ottoman monuments to be targeted
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Sultan Mehmed Mosque used to have two storeys, a brick-covered roof, and a minaret decorated with colourful stones. The exact date of its construction is not known, but it has been suggested it was built around the same time as Faik Pasha Mosque as. Its erection on the highest point of the castle
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and eventually destroyed due to its symbolic location inside the castle, while the vast majority of the rest of the reminders of the
Ottoman period where left neglected to rot and collapse after the Muslim inhabitants of Arta fled.
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mosque, Faik Pasha Mosque and the mosque of Rokka. In 1686 Jacob
Enderlin, a German engraver and publisher, created an engraving depicting Arta with Sultan Mehmed Mosque. In 1839, Panagiotis Zographos drew, under the guidance of
334:, who visited Arta in 1851. In his work, Lear depicted Arta with the Clock Tower, the mosques and the castle. A similar engraving was made by English engraver Edmund Evans, who visited the town in April of 1854.
330:. Zographos' painting shows the castle, the sprawl of the town, as well as the Sultan Mehmed, Sultan Beyazid and Kiliç Bey mosques. One of the most notable depictions was created by English writer and artist
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Xenopoulos, Δοκίμιον Ιστορικόν περί Άρτης και Πρεβέζης (1884), p. 179" «Το μεν Β. εις όνομα άδηλου άγιου σωζομένων εισέτι πολλών πλακών, έγκεχαραγμένους έχουσών σταυρούς».
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220:Suleyman Agha Mosque
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71:Suleyman Agha Mosque
22:Sultan Mehmed Mosque
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1046:Iskender Bey Mosque
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228:Σουλεϊμάν Αγά Τζαμί
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76:General information
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341:
338:Architecture
312:
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280:Rokka Mosque
261:
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197:
192:Brick, stone
143:20°59′17.4″E
140:39°09′56.0″N
1275:Yeni Mosque
1258:Eski Mosque
1227:Yeni Mosque
1151:Peloponnese
1096:Orta Mosque
1011:Eski Mosque
996:Arap Mosque
915:Yeni Mosque
777:Yeni Mosque
332:Edward Lear
155: /
130:Coordinates
1324:Categories
1006:Bey Mosque
488:References
238:), was an
179:After 1881
978:Macedonia
830:Parthenon
315:Piri Reis
296:Arta was
291:Mehmed II
176:Destroyed
168:Completed
84:Destroyed
1204:Thessaly
598:Πασσά.».
417:See also
278:and the
189:Material
109:Location
548:, p.23.
347:Gallery
300:by the
298:annexed
262:During
258:History
240:Ottoman
232:Turkish
212:Turkish
119:Country
1237:Thrace
925:Epirus
319:castle
248:Greece
123:Greece
93:Mosque
81:Status
862:Crete
625:1884.
611:p. 24
224:Greek
204:Greek
1294:Bold
268:Arta
244:Arta
198:The
113:Arta
89:Type
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