Building Name: | Kubelie Mosque |
Native Name: | Xhamia e Kubelies |
Native Name Lang: | sq |
Location: | Kavajë, Albania |
Coordinates: | 41.184°N 19.5621°W |
Religious Affiliation: | Islam |
Architecture Type: | Mosque |
Architecture Style: | Islamic, Ottoman |
The Kubelie Mosque or Kapllan Beu Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Kubelies) is a historic mosque in Kavajë, Albania. This mosque was originally built here in 1735 under the Ottomans by Kapllan Beu. The Old Mosque (Xhamija e Vjetër), stood on the main street of the city, about 70m to the east of the current one.[1] Also named after its founder Kapllan Pasha, the Kubelie mosque had been described as a "grand, beautiful building, with a dome and a peristyle. Marble facades rise under the cypress trees with their Byzantine columns and their Arabian arches."[2] After being destroyed by the Communists in the 1970s, the new mosque has a very simple style and is made of concrete and white color while the original mosque was an Ottoman stone building with beautifully coloured decorations on the inside.