The King’s Mosque, also called Bajazit’s, is one of the main mosques of the city of Berat, declared a cultural monument since 1948.
It was built by Sultan Bayazit II, at the end of the XV century.
The mosque consists of prayer hall, portico and minaret.
The prayer hall has a rectangular layout. It is separated by arcades of three arches that rest on two pillars and two pilasters on the side walls.
The hall is covered by a plank ceiling, which is divided into two separate parts by the supporting arcade of the roof structures.
The ceiling consists of ten domes and is decorated with wood carvings very gracefully, according to the spirit of the time. In the center of the ceiling there are rosettes with inscriptions of various Quranic sayings. A frieze below the ceiling contains the 99 names of Allah.
In the architectural formulation of the King mosque, an important place is the sound and the portico. It is surrounded by arcades resting on massive pilasters at the four corners, at the entrance gate, and on pillars, in the parts between them.
A very valuable element of this building is the elegant, tall and slender minaret. It is built with plastered ashlar stones.
From the inscription, which is preserved painted on the mafil structures, we learn that the mosque at the beginning of the century. X
IX was in danger of collapsing and was therefore rebuilt.
