Arched porch
Three arches.
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The Gazi Ali Pasha Mosque is an Ottoman mosque in the centre of the town of Babadag in Tulcea County, southeast Romania, about 31 km south of Tulcea in a straight line. Beside it stand the tomb of Gazi Ali Pasha and the old Kalaigi fountain. Babadag sits on a small lake in the densely wooded highlands of Northern Dobruja. Its name means Father Mountain in Turkish and is tied to the 13th-century dervish Sari Saltik, one of whose tombs is in the town; the traveller Ibn Battuta recorded it as Baba Saltuk. The mosque dates from the Ottoman period, a plaque on its wall gives the year 1610, and it was restored in 1998 by Turkey's religious foundation in a Turkish–Romanian collaboration. The mosque is a long stone building with a red tiled roof, fronted by a porch of three arches, with a slender white minaret at its side. A neatly kept garden with green beds and stone paths surrounds it, and the imam's house stands behind. Visitors walk the garden around the mosque and the tomb, and can combine the visit with the tomb of Sari Saltik on Măcin Street and the Museum of Oriental Art in the 19th-century Panaghia house.
Three arches.
Slender and white.
Green beds.
Central Babadag, Tulcea County, Romania
Sari Saltik's tomb and the Museum of Oriental Art.
Modest clothing.