Tombul Mosque (Shumen) built

Name: Tombul Mosque (Shumen) built
Start: 1744

1744 CE.

Shown on the map at 43.269°, 26.910°.

The Tombul Mosque (also spelled as the Tumbul Mosque), officially the Sherif Halil Pasha Mosque (Bulgarian: Томбул джамия; Turkish: Tombul Camii), is a mosque located in Shumen, in the Shumen Province of Bulgaria. It is the largest mosque in Bulgaria and one of the largest in the Balkans. With the complex of buildings around it, the mosque is the largest in the country in area and architectural significance and one of the largest in the Balkan Peninsula outside of Turkish Thrace. The Tombul Mosque was listed as a cultural monument of national importance in 1975.

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