Osman Shah Mosque

The Osman Shah Mosque is a sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque inside the town of Trikala in Greece. The mosque became commissioned by using Osman Shah, additionally known as Kara Osman Pasha, who become the son of considered one of Sultan Selim I's daughters and the done vizier skender Pasha died 1515. Osman Shah for a long term dwelt in Trikala as the governor of the neighborhood province, the Sanjak of Trikala.

The mosque was designed by the Ottoman imperial architect Mimar Sinan and is the most effective one which he designed in contemporary Greece. The genuine relationship of the mosque is unsure, but it turned into probable built inside the period 1550–60, maximum in all likelihood within the late 1550s. Osman attached numerous charitable establishments to the mosque, amongst others a madrasah, an alms house, and a caravanserai, and became himself buried in a türbe within the mosque's southern courtyard on the time of his dying in 1567/8.

By the time of Evliya Celebi's go to a century later, the mosque changed into the foremost mosque of the city. It is likewise the only mosque nonetheless standing within the town of Trikala out of the at least eight that Evliya Celebi suggested seeing. The building itself consists of a rectangular prayer corridor crowned by way of a big 18 metres diameter semi-round dome. The portico revak in the front, became completely rebuilt inside the renovations achieved in 1998.