White Mosque

About

The White Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Bardhë or Ak Mesxhid), also known as the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque, is a ruined mosque in Berat Castle, Berat, Albania. The former mosque was designated as a Cultural Monument of Albania in 1961; and forms part of the Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastër, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was designated in 2005.

From the small, roughly square mosque there are still about 1-metre-high (3.3 ft) foundation walls and the base of the minaret, that is a little over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high. It was built with white limestone in 1417, and was destroyed sometime in the 19th century after a local uprising against the Ottoman Empire 's Tanzimat reforms, but was left untended after 1967 under Enver Hoxha 's atheistic regime.