TIRANA, May 6 /ATA/ – The King Mosque or Sultan’s Mosque is undergoing restoration interventions, within the program of the Ministry of Culture “Roads of the Faith”, funded by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) and supervised by the Albanian Institute of Cultural Monuments.
The restoration project has been designed in cooperation with experts of the Institute of Cultural Monuments and provides for the complete restoration of the Mosque.
The 16th-century Sultan’s Mosque is one of the oldest in Berat, Albania. The Helveti teqe (a place of worship for those practising the Bektashi branch of Islam) behind the mosque has a beautiful carved ceiling and was specially designed with acoustic holes to improve the quality of sound during meetings. The Helveti, like the Bektashi, are a dervish order, or brotherhood, of Muslim mystics.
The King Mosque or the Sultan’s Mosque is a mosque and a Cultural Monument of Albania located in Berat. It was built in the 15th century by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II for the local Albanian population. The mosque became a Cultural Monument in 1948.//a.i/
