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The Fethiye Mosque (; , , "Mosque of the Conquest") is an Ottoman mosque in 
Ioannina
Ioannina ( ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina (regional unit), Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus (region), Epirus, an Modern regions of Greece, administrative region in northwester ...
, Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...
.
The mosque was built in the city's inner castle (Its Kale
The Ioannina Castle () is the fortified old town of the city of Ioannina in northwestern Greece. The present fortification dates largely to the reconstruction under Ali Pasha in the late Ottoman period, but incorporates also pre-existing Byzanti ...
) immediately after the conquest by the Ottomans in 1430, near the ruins of an early 13th-century Byzantine church dedicated to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel. Originally it was a wooden structure, which was replaced in 1611 by a stone building. It was extensively remodelled in 1795 by Ali Pashë Tepelena , who made it the main mosque of his palace. The graves of Ali's family and of Ali himself are located before the mosque.
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* Ottoman mosques in Greece Mosques completed in the 1610s Former mosques in Greece Ottoman architecture in Ioannina Mosques completed in the 1790s Ali Pasha of Ioannina 18th-century architecture in Greece Buildings and structures completed in 1430 Mosques completed in the 1430s Religious buildings and structures completed in 1611 {{Greece-struct-stub