Kucuk Hasan Pasha Mosque

The Kucuk Hasan Pasha Mosque or Gialisi Tzami mosque of the sea is truely the best preserved mosque of the city of Chania. It became built on the web site of a preexisting Christian temple after the conquest of Chania by means of the Ottomans in 1645, honoring Kucuk Hasan Pasha. The mosque bears a large semispherical dome supported with the aid of stone arches. The north and west sides house a gallery this is crowned by way of six small domes. This gallery become to start with open, as used in the mosques, however in the late nineteenth century it turned into closed through arched openings.

The mosque was a task of the identical Armenian architect that constructed the mosque of Spaniakos, close to Paleochora. The mosque become surrounded via a nice yard with tall palm trees, which hosted the graves of the Ottoman rulers. It ceased its opetation in 1923 and its minaret turned into demolished in 1939. During the second World War it housed the Archaeological Museum of Chania. Afterwards it become used as a storehouse, folklore museum, visitor records factor and exhibition venue.