A dilapidated 17th-century Muslim temple built on Lesvos to honour an Ottoman sultan’s unknown “ Queen Mother” will be restored under a 1.2 million euro grant from EU regional development funds for the Aegean islands, ANA reports.
Valide Djami, as it is known locally, was constructed in old Turkish quarter of Mytilini known as Epano Skala at least as early as 1615, according to a dedicatory inscription on its lintel.
Once completed, the building will serve as an epigraphical museum for inscriptions of the Ottoman period, chief of the antiquities department for the island Pavlos Triantafyllidis told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).
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