The White Mosque ( or ), also known as the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque, is a ruined mosque in Berat Castle, Berat, Albania. The former mosque was designated as a Cultural Monument of Albania in 1961; and forms part of the Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastër, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was designated in 2005.

Overview From the small, roughly square mosque there are still about foundation walls and the base of the minaret, that is a little over high. It was built with white limestone in 1417, and was destroyed sometime in the 19th century after a local uprising against the Ottoman Empire's Tanzimat reforms, but was left untended after 1967 under Enver Hoxha's atheistic regime.

See also

Islam in Albania List of mosques in Albania List of Religious Cultural Monuments of Albania

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