The Valide Mosque[1], the earliest Muslim Mosque in Mytilene, is located in today’s Epano Skala, between Tinos and Kornaros Streets, in an area that used to be part of the famous Ottoman district of Azizie. It was the property of Şemseddin Hoca and was bordered...
From 1462 until 1912, Lesbos was under the Ottoman Rule. The Muslim population initially settled in the residential area of the Mytilene Castle, gradually increasing during the 16th c. and soon expanding north of the city, in the wider area of Epano Skala, where the...
