The Elassona Mosque () or Muharrem Pasha Mosque, is an Ottoman mosque at

Elassona Elassona (; Katharevousa: ) is a town and a municipality in the Larissa regional unit in Greece. During antiquity Elassona was called Oloosson (Ὀλοοσσών) and was a town of the Perrhaebi tribe. It is situated at the foot of Mount Olympus ...

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, dating to the 17th/18th century. A simple and austere structure, the mosque comprises a single, square prayer hall. It is covered by a dome resting on an octagonal

dome A dome () is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere. There is significant overlap with the term cupola, which may also refer to a dome or a structure on top of a dome. The precise definition of a dome has been a m ...

supported by

pendentive In architecture, a pendentive is a constructional device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or of an elliptical dome over a rectangular room. The pendentives, which are triangular segments of a sphere, taper to point ...

s. The walls are of rough masonry with irregular brick bands. The prayer hall is illuminated by 16 windows, arranged in two rows. The windows are framed by plaster frames on the interior. The ''

mihrab ''Mihrab'' (, ', pl. ') is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the ''qibla'', the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a ''mihrab'' appears is thus the "''qibla'' wall". ...

'' is decorated with plain ''

muqarnas Muqarnas (), also known in Iberian architecture as Mocárabe (from ), is a form of three-dimensional decoration in Islamic architecture in which rows or tiers of niche-like elements are projected over others below. It is an archetypal form of I ...

''. A wooden gallery once existed above the entrance, and a wooden porch stood before the gateway. The founder's inscription above the entrance has been erased. A minaret stood on the northwestern corner, but collapsed in 1961. Work has been carried out to improve structural stability, but the building is not open to the public. For some time, the building was used to store parts of the Elassona archaeological collection.

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