Hamza Bey Tzami (Alkazar)

Info

  • Coordinates:

    40.637335, 22.941650

  • Address:

    Egnatia and Venizelou street

Also known as ‘Alkazar’ from the homonymous movie theater that operated in its colonnaded courtyard for several decades, the Hamza Bey Tzami (Alkazar) was built in 1467 by the daughter of the military commander Hamza Bey and is one of the first mosques built in Thessaloniki after the end of the Ottoman occupation.