Zagan Pasha Mosque

1446–1462 or 1469), an Ottoman military commander and Grand Vizier of Albanian origin; he was the son of the right hand of George Castriot Skanderbeg - Vrana Konti.

Located in the city center, at Mustafa Fakıh neighborhood, it is part of a complex consisting of a tomb and a hammam.

The mosque and the tomb, broke down in 1897, were rebuilt in 1908 by the Mutasarrıf (Governor) Ömer Ali Bey.

On three sides of the mosque, in front of the doors, there is a porch with an inclined lead-coated timber roof supported by two square marble columns.

[1] During his visit to Balıkesir on February 7, 1923, shortly after the end of the Turkish War of Independence (May 19, 1919 – October 11, 1922), Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, then known as Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha, delivered a khutbah (an Islamic sermon), which became famous as the "Balıkesir Khutbah", in the mosque.

of Zagan Pasha Mosque.