lasted another millennium until the Turkish Ottoman Empire captured Athens in 1458. The new Muslim rulers converted the Parthenon to a mosque, but according to written accounts from the mid-1600s ...

Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a mosque, complete with a ...

The occupying Franks transformed the Parthenon once again in 1204, this time into a Catholic cathedral. Under the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, it was reborn again as a Muslim mosque ...

Inspired by the rich heritage of Ottoman art, the mosque's design reflects a harmonious blend of tradition and contemporary architectural elements. Spanning an impressive 5,021.31 square metres ...

The Acropolis is a sacred hill in the heart of Athens with the Parthenon at its peak ... In 1453, the Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque after Ottoman Turks conquered the city.

The 2,500-year-old Parthenon is among the most recognizable ... and eventually to the Ottomans as "the finest mosque in the world," as one 17th-century writer put it. But the structure has served ...