Mangalia Mosque

Mangalia Mosque
The Esmahan Sultan Mosque

Mangalia Mosque ("Esmahan Sultan") is the oldest mosque in Romania, being built in 1575 by Esmahan, the daughter of Ottoman sultan Selim II. Located in Mangalia, Constanţa County, it serves a community of 800 Muslim families, most of them of Turkish and Tatar ethnicity. It was renovated in the 1990s and includes a graveyard with 300-year old tombstones.

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