Yakovalı Hasan Pasha Mosque, Pécs

The mosque stands outside the walls of Pécs near the Szigetvár gate on Hospital Square; according to the author it is the only mosque in Hungary to have kept its original form intact. ¹ Evliya Çelebi describes it as a large old lead-roofed mosque with a minaret of a particular, elegant style; north of it stood Hungary's only dervish lodge, which Evliya described at length and the Austrians later demolished. ¹

After Turkish rule at Pécs ended the Jesuits made it a church, and it served as a Catholic church until 1960, when it was restored as a museum with a minbar, lectern and carpets brought from Türkiye. ¹ Boards on the way in explain its history and dervish culture, and nearby are a statue of the historian İbrahim Peçevi and a few surviving tombstones. ¹