The Yeni Mosque in Thessaloniki was designed by the Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli for the city's Dönmeh community and finished in 1902. The article calls the style eclectic, mixing Islamic forms with Baroque, Renaissance and neoclassical elements. Mark Mazower called it art nouveau meets a neo-Baroque Alhambra.
It is brick and stone, about 76 by 49 feet (23.3 by 14.9 m), with one dome over a square prayer hall about 45 feet (13.7 m) across. The Dönmeh left after the 1923 population exchange. The building housed the Archaeological Museum from 1925 to 1962, and the minaret and fountain were demolished in 1938.
It reopened for Ramadan worship in 2012, then closed, and reopened for Eid al-Fitr in 2024 and 2025. The infobox lists mosque status as 2012 to present, which the text contradicts. The article gives no regular hours.
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