Islam in Greece
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Islam in Greece is represented by two distinct communities; Muslims that have lived in Greece since the times of the Ottoman Empire and Muslim immigrants that began arriving in the last quarter of the
Bazaar at Athens, Edward Dodwell.
Young Greeks at the Mosque (Jean-Léon Gérôme, oil on canvas, 1865); this oil painting portrays Greek Muslims at prayer in a mosque.
Meco Cemali, the mufti of Komotini on Greek Independence Day
Imaret gate in Kavala with a dedication in Ottoman Turkish. Discernible are the names of Sultan Mahmud II, Ali Pasha (Muhammad Ali of Egypt, a native of Kavala), and the Islamic year 1233 corresponding to AD 1817.
Turks of the Dodecanese
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The Turks of the Dodecanese are a community of ethnic Turks, indigenous Greek Muslims and Cretan Muslims living on the Dodecanese islands of Rhodes and Kos.
Islam in Greece
…For more information on this community, see Muslim minority of Greece. There is also a small Muslim community in some of the Dodecanese islands (Turks of the Dodecanese) which, as part of the Italian Dodecanese of the Kingdom of Italy between 1911 and 1947, were not subjected to the exchange of the population between…
Suleymaniye Mosque in Rhodes
Defterdar Mosque in Kos
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