Alaca Imaret Mosque

Alaca Imaret Mosque
Basic information
Location	Thessaloniki, Greece
Affiliation	Islam
District	Thessaloniki
Province	Thessaloniki
Region	Macedonia
Architectural description
Architectural type	Mosque
Architectural style	Islamic, Ottoman architecture
Completed	1484 or 1487
Specifications
Minaret(s)	1, now destroyed
Materials	stone and brick

Alaca Imaret Mosque or Ishak Pasha Mosque is a 15th-century Ottoman Mosque in Thessaloniki, Greece.^[1]

Architecture

It was built by order of Ishak Pasha in 1484 or 1487.^[1] It consists of a mosque with an imaret (public charity kitchen). The mosque and imaret are not in use anymore. The mosque has a reverse T plan common to early Ottoman architecture, the prayer hall is covered by two large domes, it has a portico covered by five smaller domes. It had one minaret, which was destroyed after 1912, after Thessaloniki was liberated by the Greek Army and became part of the modern Greek state. It is under restoration till now.

References

• Picture of the building from above.

Ottoman Greece
Ethnarchy	Rum Millet Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
People	Ottoman Greeks Phanariotes Dragomans Greek Muslims Ali Pasha
Major centres	Cities: Patras Thessaloniki Ioannina Missolonghi Tripoli Larissa Islands: Chios Hydra Spetses
Division	Rumelia Eyalet Ioannina Eyalet Salonica Eyalet Morea Eyalet Eyalet of the Archipelago Janina Vilayet Salonica Vilayet Vilayet of the Archipelago Ottoman Crete
Sanjaks	Sanjak of Kavala Sanjak of Drama Sanjak of Salonica Sanjak of Tirhala Sanjak of Eğriboz Sanjak of Ioannina Sanjak of Preveza Sanjak of Inebahti Karli-Eli Sanjak of Nakşa Berre Sanjak of Sakız Sanjak of Rhodes
Autonomies	Principality of Samos (1834) Cretan State (1898)
Military	Ottoman Sipahis Armatoloi Outside the Empire Ioan Iacob Heraclid Stratioti Greek Battalion of Balaklava Lambros Katsonis Alexandros Ypsilantis
Wars/Battles	Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–79) Battle of Preveza Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) Battle of Lepanto Cretan War (1645–69) Morean War Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18) Russo-Turkish War (1768–74) Orlov Revolt Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca Greek War of Independence Morea expedition Epirus Revolt of 1854 Cretan Revolt (1866–69)
Influence in culture	Orthodoxy in Greece (1453–1821) Greek folk music Rebetiko Greek shipping Greek cuisine
Modern Greek Enlightenment	People: Rigas Feraios Eugenios Voulgaris Anthimos Gazis Theophilos Kairis Schools: Kaplaneios School Athonite Academy Evangelical School of Smyrna New Academy (Moscopole)
Monuments	Alaca Imaret Mosque Aslan Pasha Mosque Bey Hamam Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque Fethiye Mosque (Athens) Fethiye Mosque (Ioannina) Hafiz Ahmed Agha Library Karipeion Melathron New Mosque (Thessaloniki) Osman Shah Mosque Tzistarakis Mosque White Tower of Thessaloniki
Greeks outside the Empire	Communities: London Venice Trieste Marseille Livorno Odessa Vienna Bucharest Alexandria Schools: Flanginian School Princely Academy of Bucharest

Ottoman monuments of Thessaloniki
Mosques	Alaca Imaret Mosque Hamza Bey Mosque New (Yeni) Mosque
Baths	Bey Hamam Pasha Hamam Yahudi Hamam Yeni Hamam
Fortifications	Heptapyrgion (Yedikule) White Tower
Villas/Mansions	Atatürk Museum Karipeion Melathron Government House (Konak) Villa Allatini Villa Bianca Villa A.Kapanci Villa Modiano Villa Mordoch
Other	Bezesteni

Coordinates: 40°38′21″N 22°56′59″E / 40.63917°N 22.94972°E / 40.63917; 22.94972