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Great Mosque of Pristina (Sultan Mehmet Fatih Mosque)

Name: Great Mosque of Pristina (Sultan Mehmet Fatih Mosque)
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The mosque is also known as the Sultan Mehmed al-Fatih Mosque or more rarely as the "King's Mosque" (alb. Xhamia e Mbretit).

The Islamic house of worship was built in 1460/61 by order of Sultan Mehmed II. During Austria's Turkish Wars, the mosque was converted into a Catholic church dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier in the late 17th century. The writer Pjetër Bogdani was buried here, but after the defeat of Austria-Hungary in 1690 he was exhumed, his bones thrown onto the street by the Turkish army and the building converted into a mosque. Between 1961 and 1962 restorations were undertaken by the Priština Municipality; and between 1964 and 1967 the minaret was renovated, first demolished and then rebuilt.

The building consists of a cubic one-room building with a side length of 14 meters. The pendentive dome has a span of 13.5 meters and is considered the largest in former Yugoslavia. The building is made of stone on the outside and brick on the inside. A portico supported by four columns with three domes stretches across the width of the building. The mosque contains decorative paintings (floral ornaments in blue and black) and arabesques from the 18th century. A rosette forms the apex of the dome.

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