The Knights' Mosque in the city of Berat is a first-class monument and an important monument of Albanian culture, built in 1828. It was created in the Mangalem district and was to be a place of prayer and reflection for the bachelors of the city workers' guilds, who also worked as night market guards. In 1961, a Muslim temple was included in the list of religious cultural monuments of Albania.
The Knights' Mosque in southern Albania is a two-story building with a single minaret. When building the temple, it was decided to apply wall painting on the internal and external facades. Fragments of geometric formations and religious paintings created in the years 1827-1828 have survived to this day.
The Berat mosque also stands out from the outside. The massive body, low minaret and front arches with stone columns are the hallmarks of the building. After 1967, when Albania was proclaimed an atheist state, the mosque was destroyed, but its structure has survived to this day and is one of the most important cultural assets in the city of Berat.
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