Ebu Beker Mosque

The Ebu Bekër Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia Ebu Beker), also known as the New Fushë Çela Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e re e Fushë Çela) and sometimes referred to simply as Xhamia e Madhe (transl. Great Mosque), is a mosque in Shkodër City, Shkodër County, Albania.

Ebu Beker Mosque
Xhamia Ebu Beker
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Branch/tradition	Sunni
Location
Location	Shkodër City, Shkodër County, Albania
Albania
Geographic coordinates	42°4′3″N 19°30′50″E
Architecture
Type	Mosque

The mosque was designed by ARC Architectural Consultants^[1] and built from 1994 to 1995 on the site of the old Fushë Çela Mosque, which was destroyed during the communist era, with funding by Saudi entrepreneur Sheikh Zamil Abdullah Al-Zamil.^[2] It is named after Abu Bakr, the first Rashidun caliph. The inauguration was held on 27 October 1995, and the mosque was renovated in 2008.^[3]

Fushë Çela Mosque (1917)

The mosque, today at the end of a walkway from the Hotel Colosseo, covers 622.72 square metres (6,702.9 sq ft) and can accommodate 1,300 worshipers. The minaret is 41.11 metres (134.9 ft) high and the dome stretches to 24 metres (79 ft).^[4] The Fushë Çela mosque was historically important in the scholarly learning of the city and attracted notable Islamic scholars and theologians. A legacy of the Ottoman Empire destroyed by the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, it once had its own madrasa.

Gallery

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  Interior view of the dome
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  Night view
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  Interior view of mosque

See also

• Islam in Albania

References

1. "Abu Baker al-Siddiq Mosque". Archnet Digital Library. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
2. "Board of Director of Ithmaar Bank with Sheikh Zamil Abdullah Al-Zamil's bio". Ithmaar Bank. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
3. "E XHUMAJA E NJË DITE, SA 25 VITE DËSHMI..." (PDF). Udha Islame. XIII (11 (153)). November 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
4. "Xhamia Ebu Beker". IslamShkoder.tk. Archived from the original on 5 July 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2020.

Further reading

• Anamali, Skënder; Prifti, Kristaq (2002). Historia e popullit shqiptar: vëllimi i parë. Tiranë: Toena. ISBN 9992716223.^[1]

1. Norris, H.T. (1993). Islam in the Balkans: religion and society between Europe and the Arab world. University of South Carolina Press. p. 76. ISBN 0-87249-977-4. Mosque Shkodër.