The White Mosque stands inside Berat Castle in Albania. It is also called the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque. It was built in 1417 of white limestone as a small, roughly square mosque with a single minaret.
The mosque was destroyed in the nineteenth century after a local uprising against the Ottoman Tanzimat reforms. After 1967 it was left untended under the regime of Enver Hoxha. Today it is a ruin. Only about 3 feet (1 meter) of the foundation walls and a minaret base just over 6 feet (2 meters) high remain.
The mosque was declared a Cultural Monument of Albania in 1961. It lies within the Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastër, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2005 and extended in 2008.
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