King Mosque, Elbasan, Ottoman mosque in Elbasan Castle, Albania.

King Mosque stands inside Elbasan Castle, just right of the road from the south gate. It has a porch with a tiled roof and a square prayer hall of about 12 by 12 metres, divided by a wooden portico of three pillars. The walls mix stone and brick in regular cloisonné masonry, and the windows are set in two tiers.

Sultan Bayezid II built the mosque between 1492 and 1502, naming it in honour of Mehmed II; it is among Albania's oldest active mosques, after Durrës's Fatih Mosque of 1466. In 1967 the communist authorities turned it into a political education centre. Its 14-metre minaret, partly destroyed in 1979, was rebuilt in 2013, when the mosque was fully restored.

Locals call it Xhamia e Mbretit (King's Mosque) or Xhamia e Sulltan Bajazitit, and it is the most frequented mosque in Elbasan today. The 17th-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi described a mosque inside the castle, attributed to Gazi Sinan Pasha, whose outer walls were covered with inscriptions left by passing travellers and strollers.

The mosque sits inside Elbasan Castle, to the right of the road that starts at the castle's southern gate. It is the most frequented mosque in the city, so visits are best timed outside prayer. The minaret, rebuilt in 2013, rises 14 metres above the porch.

The minaret visitors see today is a 2013 reconstruction: the original 14-metre shaft was partly destroyed in 1979. Under Enver Hoxha the mosque was turned into a political education centre in 1967, and it was fully restored in 2013.