Orta Jame Mosque

The Batumi Mosque, also known as Orta Jame, is the only functioning mosque in the city of Batumi, Georgia. It was built in 1886 by order of the family of a Muslim nobleman of Georgian origin named Aslan-bek Khimshiashvili. The mosque was built between two other mosques - Azize Jame and Ahmed Pasha Jame, which is why it was named "Orta Jame", which translates from Turkish as "middle". From 1932 to 1946, the mosque was closed by the Soviet authorities, but in 1946 it resumed its work. The mosque building is two-story, white, with one minaret and a gilded dome. The walls of the mosque are decorated with paintings by the Laz brothers. The Batumi Mosque remains the only active mosque in the city of Batumi.