Mosque· Konak, İzmir
Hüsnü Ataberk Camii
Hüsnü Ataberk Camii is a mosque in Konak, İzmir; According to the account of the businessman Husnu Ozyegin, his grandfather Husnu Ataberk, a migrant from Crete, made a vow that in response to the Greeks turning mosques into churches on Crete, he would convert a church into a mosque and open it for worship.
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- 38.4045°N · 27.1052°E
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According to the account of the businessman Husnu Ozyegin, his grandfather Husnu Ataberk, a migrant from Crete, made a vow that in response to the Greeks turning mosques into churches on Crete, he would convert a church into a mosque and open it for worship. He fulfilled this vow by purchasing the Orthodox Church of Agios Metamorphosis here, which had been used as a barn after the population exchange, and converting it into a mosque.
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