Municipal Museum of Ioannina "Aslan Pasha Mosque" - Alexioy Noytsοy 2

The view from the castle was really impressive.

Very beautiful.place to be visited in the center of Ioannina.according to the legends,it was supposed to be built very big like the ones in İstanbul however as the area is really narrow,it wasnt possible

Aslan Paşa Camii, is an Ottoman mosque in the Acropolis of Ioannina. The mosque was built in 1618 in the city's castle, replacing the Church of Saint John. Nowdays it houses the Ethnographic Museum of Ioannina.

A folklore musuem on a renovated mosque. The museum is about the local cultures of muslim jew and christian population of the area. The mosque is realy nice and It has a nice collection of local traditional outfits. The museum has a great view of the lake and the island.

The Municipal Ethnographic Museum of Ioannina is located inside the castle and is housed in the mosque of Aslan Pasha, built in the early 17th century (probably in 1618) by Aslan Pasha, who reigned in Giannina during 1600-1612. It was built in the place where, according to tradition, there was the Byzantine era, the temple of St. John. The Aslan Pasha Mosque was the core of a great religious-educational complex, of which today is the homonymous Turbe (Mausoleum), Mendeses (the Teaching School) and the Galleries (home). The Municipal Museum hosts three collections, representative of the inhabitants of the castle during its centuries-long history: Christian, Hebrew, Muslim. The objects are donations of eminent families dating back to the 18th-20th century and are utensils of utilitarian and decorative character of various metals and / or porcelain. You can also see guns and costumes typical of the Ottoman period. The objects of the collection of the Christian element include ecclesiastical silverware, vestments and ecclesiastical books from the Archbishop's Collection of Spyridon. In the Jewish collection are exhibited curtains from the building of the old synagogue, costumes etc. of the once thriving Jewish community of Ioannina.Objects from the Muslim element are exposed in the central space. There are oriental fabrics of the 16th, 17th and 18th, wood and nail furniture of the Ali Pasha era, bronze objects and Muslim books. In the areas surrounding the mosque there is a powder store, the cave of Dionysios Philosophos, tombs of eminent Turks and the medieval tower. Very important to this Acropolis are three important monuments of the Ottoman domination. This is the bathroom, the Turkish library and the sufar sherry.

Beautiful historical place with a museum now. Free toilets. Nice views of surrounding island.

An interesting place to spend a hour or two. Telling us that Jewish, Greek and Ottoman culture can live in peace together. But you are warned against using the toaletts!

nice place to go....see the old buildings and the museum is a very old and formwr holy place of a famous person in history. There are exponates...not too less and not that much...buts its nice to watch and enjoy them. Entryfee isnt a lot! Inside the mosque (prayersroom) the paintings are still original! ...beautiful! :-)