Kastellorizo Folk Art Museum

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The Kastellorizo Folk Art Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Λαϊκής Τέχνης Καστελλόριζου), also known as the Ottoman Mosque Museum, is a history museum in the small island of Kastellorizo, in the South Aegean region of Greece. Built in 1775, during the Ottoman era, as a mosque, known as the Kavos Mosque (Greek: Τζαμί του Κάβου, lit. 'Mosque of the Peninsula'), or simply the Kastellorizo Mosque (Greek: Τζαμί του Καστελλόριζου, Turkish: Meis Camii), the mosque was abandoned during the 1910s. The structure was repurposed as a museum in 2007.

Located on the tip of the small peninsula that forms the neighbourhood of Kavos, the island's only mosque, coloured in beige and red colors, was erected on the site of a previous Christian church dedicated to Saint Paraskevi. It was built in 1775.

Since July 2007, the structure housed the Historic Collection of Kastellorizo, mostly consisting of photographs, pictures, and documents recording the history of Kastellorizo from the 19th century until its destruction in 1943 during World War II and 1948, when the island along with the rest of the Dodecanese archipelago joined the rest of Greece, following a brief period under Italian rule.