Mosque in Rhodes and ritual washing facility
This is the Hora, or the Turkish Quarter of Rhodes Town. During the Turkish occupation churches were converted to mosques, the most important of which is the colourful, pink-domed Mosque of Süleyman, at the top of Sokratous Street. Also the Murat Reis Mosque and the Turkish Graveyard near the Mandraki Harbour on the island of Rhodes. This took its name after its founder and admiral of Suleiman. His sarcophagus is in its interior, along with the sarcophaguses of some other personages, who were exiled to Rhodes. There’s a decayed elegance to the graveyard with its unique Turkish gravestones. The ones that have turbans are male and the more pineapple shaped ones are women. They are ornately carved and look long neglected. There was a large Jewish community on Rhodes who came from Spain and brought many artefacts of the Jewish church with them. The meter Torah scroll was one of their most precious religious texts. When the Nazi’s took Rhodes and were transporting the Jewish population to Auschwitz they entrusted the Torah to lay hidden under the pulpit in the mosque until after the occupation, when he returned it to the Jewish survivors. Thanks to the trusting relationship between Muslims and Jews at the time the Torah is now in the national library of Israel.
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Location: Rhodes Greece
Photo credit: © Brenda Kean / Alamy / Afripics
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