Banya Bashi Mosque - The mosque was designed by the famous Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan and completed in 1566, during the years the Ottomans had control of the city. The mosque derives its name from the phrase Banya Bashi, which means many baths. (In the Turkish language Banyo means bath and Baş pronounced Bash means ‘head’ or ‘main’, so looking at the location it is built on, a more logical translation of the name would be ‘Head of the bath mosque’).

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