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...
The Çarşi Hamam, also known as the Market Bath or the Central Bath, is located in the region of the present-day Epano Skala in Mytilene, at the junction of Lorentzos Mavilis, A. Simantiris and Agia Sophia Streets, in the centre of the former Ottoman market in the...
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...
The Sigri Castle is located at the southwestern end of the homonymous settlement, which is built on the westernmost coastal part of the island and at a distance of about 85 km. from Mytilene, the capital city of Lesbos. In antiquity, the Sigri bay was considered,...