Aladja Imaret (Ishak Pasha Mosque)
Fifteenth-century Ottoman charity kitchen and mosque with twin domes, now hosting art exhibitions.
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This guide to the Alaca Imaret in Thessaloniki starts at the stone plaque over its gateway, carved in the fourteen-eighties for Ishak Pasha, grand vizier to two Ottoman sultans. It follows the building's first purpose as a charity kitchen, who came through its doors to eat, and where its colourful name comes from. Best heard standing in the portico, under the row of five small domes.
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