MEDRESE MOSQUE

This ^19th-century square mosque (Μενδρεσέ Τζαμί/Medrese Tzami) has been converted into a cultural center. It retains its large dome and minaret. It adjoined a medersa (Koranic school) destroyed in 1922 and was built from the materials of the Musa-Çelebi mosque that stood here within the walls of the former Byzantine church Agios Pavlos converted after the Ottoman capture of the city in 1433. To the west of the mosque stands the "tribune of St. Paul", the site where the apostle is said to have preached around the year 50.