The iconic Yeni Mosque in Thessaloniki, Greece, will be open for the first time for Muslim prayers during Eid al-Fitr on April 10, Greek authorities announced. The Ottoman monument was built by Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli in 1902 for the city’s Dönmeh community, crypto-Jewish converts to Islam. . After the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-22 and […]
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