Saint Nicholas Church
Ruins · Albania
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.782, 19.643
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: 1st century BC, the building was repurposed as a church and then as a mosque after 1478.
History
The St. Nicholas Church, also known as the Selimije Mosque, the Church-Mosque of Lezhë, and, since the 1980s, as the Skanderbeg National Memorial, is a former temple and subsequently a Catholic church and a former Islamic mosque, and now a mausoleum and monument that contains the remains of Skanderbeg. The structure is located in Lezhë, Albania. Likely to have been established in c. 1st century BC, the building was repurposed as a church and then as a mosque after 1478. The mosque got partially destroyed by the Communist dictatorship in c. 1967, and again repurposed as a mausoleum in 1981. The structure is thus now in a ruinous state. The site was designated as a Cultural Monument of Albania.