The Ebu Bekër Mosque ( sq, Xhamia Ebu Beker) is a mosque in Shkodër City,

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, Albania. The mosque was designed by ARC Architectural Consultants and built from 1994 to 1995 on the site of the old Fushë Çela Mosque, which was destroyed during the communist era, with funding from Saudi entrepreneur Sheikh Zamil Abdullah Al-Zamil. It is named after

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, the first Rashidun

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. The inauguration was held on 27 October 1995, and the mosque was renovated in 2008. The mosque, today at the end of a walkway from the Hotel Colosseo, covers and can accommodate 1,300 worshipers. The minaret is high and the dome stretches to . 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

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destroyed by the

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, it once had its own

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