The Kastellorizo Folk Art Museum () is a museum in the small island of Kastellorizo, Greece, housed in a historical Ottoman-era mosque that was known as the Kavos Mosque () or simply the Kastellorizo Mosque ().

Description

Located on the tip of the small peninsula that forms the neighbourhood of Kavos, the island's only mosque, coloured in beige and red colors, was erected on the site of a previous Christian church dedicated to Saint Paraskevi. It was built in 1775. Since July 2007, it houses the Historical Collection of Kastellorizo, mostly consisting of old photographs, pictures, and documents recording the history of Kastellorizo from the nineteenth century until its destruction in 1943 during World War II and 1948, when the island along with the rest of the Dodecanese archipelago joined the rest of Greece, following a brief period under Italian rule.

Kastellorizo Folk Art Museum

See also

Islam in Greece

List of former mosques in Greece

Chios Byzantine Museum

Ottoman Greece

References

Museums in the South Aegean

Former mosques in Greece

Ottoman mosques in Greece

Mosque buildings with domes

18th-century mosques

18th-century architecture in Greece

Mosques completed in the 1770s

Kastellorizo Folk Art Museum