Albania’s Plumbi Mosque among the world’s 50 most amazing

TIRANA, Oct. 31 – Eighteenth century Lead Mosque in the northern Albanian city of Shkodra has been announced as one of the world’s 50 amazing mosques, according to an article published on the Huffington Post. The Lead Mosque, locally known as the Xhamia e Plumbit, is ranked 37th in the 50-mosque list.
Built toward the end of the 1700s, this is one of the few mosques that were not destroyed around 1967, when Enver Hoxha’s communist government declared Albania an “atheistic country” and banned all religious meetings and literature.
Located behind the Rozafa Castle, the Lead Mosque was built in 1773 by Mehmet Pasha Bushati and is one of the most prominent cultural and religious monuments in the city of Shkodra. Of particular significance, is its architectural similarity to the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. This stands it apart from other mosques in Albania, which were designed and built based on typical Arabic architectural styles.