Parthenon mosque

However, Mehmed II is known to have visited Athens in 1458 after the surrender of the Acropolis to the Ottoman Empire and again in 1460,[1] and it is speculated that the act of conversion could have taken place then or shortly thereafter since the prominent churches of conquered territories were typically converted.

[6] This building was destroyed in the Venetian bombardment during the 1687 Siege of the Acropolis and replaced with a smaller free-standing, single-domed mosque that stood in the cleared space of the naos.

Evliya not only recorded the physical details of the Parthenon but attempted to incorporate it into the Ottoman cultural milieu and Islamic legend and folklore.

[10] Evliya's visit in 1667 was succeeded by a number of European visitors, who left a small cache of records of the Ottoman Parthenon before its destruction.

Amongst the last of these records is de Lotbinière's 1839 daguerreotype of the Parthenon, depicting the mosque still present in the naos.