The Molla Nakip Mosque is a mosque

Mosque

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 in Pazarkapi district of Trabzon

Trabzon

Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast...

, Turkey

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. It was built in the 10th or 11th century, during Byzantine

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 times as a church, and received its present name and function after the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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conquest of the city in 1461. The north entrance was built by Turks. In 1975 a large restoration took place and the ceiling was covered with concrete. The building has three naves and their apses are made of ancient stone blocks.