Molla Bey of Petrela
Molla Mehmet Bey known as Molla Bey of Petrela (d.1806[1] or 1808[2]) was an Ottoman-Albanian religious leader and benefactor from Tirana. Born with the name Mehmet, he was a descendant of Sulejman Pasha Bargjini, the Ottoman general from nearby Mullet who transformed Tirana into a developed commercial and religious center.
Molla Bey started the construction of the Et'hem Bey Mosque, a Cultural Monument of Albania, and also a point of reference due to its location in the , the main square of Tirana. The construction year lies between 1791 and 1794. Various sources place the start year in 1791,[1] 1793 (1208 in Hijri),[2] or 1794,[1] and after Molla Bey's death his son Haxhi Etëhem Bey Mollaj finished it in 1819 or 1821.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d H.T.Norris (1993), Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society Between Europe and the Arab World, University of South Carolina Press, pp. 77–78, ISBN 9780872499775, OCLC 28067651
- ^ a b Türk Arşivciler Derneği (2007), Arşiv dünyası, Istanbul, p. 86, OCLC 464762117
Categories:
- 1806 deaths
- People from Tirana
- 18th-century Albanian people
- 19th-century Albanian people
- Albanian Muslims
- Albanian Sunni Muslims
- Albanians of the Ottoman Empire
- Muslims of the Ottoman Empire
- Sanjak of Scutari