Chepintsi Mosque (Chepintsi)

Bulgaria / Smoljan / Rudozem / Chepintsi
This mosque is the symbol of the village and is the only one in the country with two minarets each being 35 m high. The mosque possesses a very rich library with over 800 printed books in Arabic and Persian languages ranging from philosophy and astronomy to Islamic law and rhetoric. The mosque’s library also stores 350 volumes of manuscripts – Arabic calligraphy of poetry, history, ethics and music as well as the oldest Koran in Bulgaria also called “The Golden Koran”. It is over 600 years old and according to scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences it had been made for a sultan.
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Coordinates:   41°25'47"N   24°52'19"E
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