Namagazh Mosque

Namazgah Mosque

The Grand Mosque of Tirana, also known as the Namgazh, is a Muslim shrine whose construction only began in 2010 and was completed in 2023.

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Tirana's Namgazh Mosque is the largest in the entire Balkans.

The decision to build it was taken in the late 1990s, when religious buildings decimated by the long communist regime were slowly being restored. Catholic and Orthodox cathedrals were built in the mid-1990s, while the construction of the central mosque was long blocked by the president of the then parliament.

The mosque has 4 minarets each over 50 metres high and its construction is being carried out with massive financial support from the Turkish government.

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