Islamic art on a greek island's harbour by an armenian...
The Janissaries* Mosque presents an unusual sight with its cubistic shape covered by a large hemispherical dome without a spradrel supported by four elaborate stone arches and dates back to the second half of the 17th century. It was erected in honour of Kioutsouk Hassan, the first garrison commander of Chania in 1645 but was heavily damaged by the World War II bombings. After a research conducted by the 13th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, it has been discovered that there used to be an one-roomed temple in its current position.
The temple Kioutsouk (small) Hassan or Giali Tzamissi (seaside mosque), as it was commonly called, a brilliant sample of Islamic art of the Renaissance was a work of an Armenian architect and stopped operating in 1923. Today it is restored without the small and pituresque minaret, which was demolished in 1920. For a number of years the Information Office of the Greek National Tourism Organisation (GNTO) was housed there and it has been also occasionally used as an Archaeological Museum of Chania, a storehouse, a Museum of folklore art, while recently has served as Antiquity Department of the Harbour and as an event and exhibition hall.
* Janissaries:
Greek-born and Muslim-raised paramilitary units that laid down the law with particular brutality.
Greek-born and Muslim-raised paramilitary units that laid down the law with particular brutality.
At the quay of the old Venetian harbor of Chania Town during the rule of the Ottoman Empire in Greece and Crete, the Turks often took children from the Christian families, raised them as Muslim and conditioned and trained them to be brutal law enforcers, so called the Janissaries. The ones of Chania Town built this mosque around 1650, in one of the most high profile and privileged spots in town. In 1690 their power and arrogance had grown so much that they murdered the Pasha of Chania and it is said that they fed his body to the dogs behind the mosque.
Μunicipality of Chania
Chania travel guide, Chania country (Creta, Greece)
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