Yunus Bey Mosque, Ottoman mosque in central Komotini, Greece
Yunus Bey Mosque is a ruined Ottoman mosque in the Nea Mosynoupoli district of Komotini, fifty metres east of the Poşpoş Tekke. Only its four outer walls and a door stand; the roof and all inner walls have collapsed, and the open interior is used as a playground by local children.
The mosque was built after the Ottoman conquest of Thrace in the Middle Ages, but the exact year of its construction is unknown. It stands in what is now the Nea Mosynoupoli district of Komotini, fifty metres east of the Poşpoş Tekke. Its roof and all inner walls have since collapsed, leaving only the four outer walls and a door.
The building no longer serves as a mosque: its roof and inner walls have collapsed, and local children now use the open interior as a playground. The name preserves Yunus Bey, the Ottoman figure it commemorates, and the ruin stands in the Nea Mosynoupoli district, fifty metres east of the Poşpoş Tekke.
The ruin stands in a pedestrian street of the Nea Mosynoupoli district, fifty metres east of the Poşpoş Tekke. Only the four outer walls and the door remain, with the roof and inner walls collapsed, so there is no interior to enter. The enclosed space is used as a playground by local children.
The mosque stands about fifty metres east of the Poşpoş Tekke in the Nea Mosynoupoli district, on a pedestrian street. Komotini's 1993 city plans, which covered several mosques and masjids, provide for the expropriation of roughly 41.25 m² of the mosque's plot.
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