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 ...

Its Ottoman design was influenced by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, more commonly known as the Blue Mosque, in Istanbul. The ...

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 ...