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Remembrance of things past near the mosque

Fethiye Mosque in the Ancient roman Agora in Athens, Greece.

 

The Fethiye Mosque is located on the northern side of the ancient Roman Agora in Athens, near the Tower of the Winds, and was built on the ruins of a Christian basilica from the middle Byzantine period (8th/9th centuries).

 

The Christian church was converted into a mosque in 1456/58, soon after the Ottoman conquest of the Duchy of Athens, to coincide with the visit to the city by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1458.

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Uploaded on May 22, 2018
Taken on October 5, 2008