Mosque · Bursa
Fatih Mosque, Bursa
Mosque and former Byzantine church
The Fatih Mosque (Turkish: Fatih Camii) is a mosque in Tirilye (Zeytinbağı), Bursa Province, Turkey. The structure was originally constructed in the 8th or 9th as a Byzantine church and was later converted to a Muslim place of worship during the 16th century. It again served as a Greek Orthodox church between 1920 and 1922 until it was re-converted to a mosque in 1923 after the Greco-Turkish population exchange.
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