TIRANA, May 15/ATA/-The restoration works are underway at the Bazaar Mosque in the Southern city of Gjirokastra aiming at transforming it into a new destination of religious tourism.
The specialists of the Institute of the Monuments of Culture have inspected today from very close the restoration works at the mosque.
The mosque was built in 1754-55 and is located in the Old Bazaar neighbourhood.
It is one of fifteen mosques originally built in the city during the Ottoman era, of which only 13 survived till the communist era, and 12 out of these were destroyed during this period.
Gjirokastra is inscribed as a rare example of an architectural character typical of the Ottoman period and it’s in the UNESCO World Heritage List./a.a/j.p/p.s./
