The Ministry of Culture, consistently implementing the programme for the restoration and promotion of the monuments of Kos, which were affected by the 2017 earthquake, is completing the enactment of protecting, restoring, maintaining and promoting the Defterdar Mosque and the -Moorish style- marble Fountain of Purification, successful the historical halfway of Kos town.
The mosque and the fountain suffered important harm from the earthquake, resulting successful the interruption of commercialized uses of the crushed floor. During the restoration work, aft the removal of the instrumentality of the shops connected the crushed floor, further harm was discovered, which was not disposable during the mentation of the study. The project, with a full fund of astir 1,500,000 euros, is being implemented by the Directorate for the Restoration of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments of the Ministry of Culture and is financed by the Recovery Fund and the Public Investment Program of the Ministry of Culture.
Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni stated: “From 2017, erstwhile the land experienced the consequences of a beardown earthquake, until 2019, determination was nary mentation for the restoration of the “damaged” monuments. The full fund of the projects successful Kos exceeds 10,000,000 euros and is covered by resources from the Recovery Fund and the Public Investment Program of the Ministry of Culture. In 2020, we started with the maturation of the studies, which were completed. The projects were enactment retired to tender, the contracts were signed and the works began connected each the earthquake-affected monuments, which are present gradually being completed and returned to the section community, arsenic we had committed. The restoration works of the Toll Gate and the Castle of Nerantzia person already been completed. The Defterdar Mosque and the Fountain of Purification person dominated Eleftherias Square since the precocious 18th century. In the task that is successful progress, the required interventions are being completed regarding the consolidation and restoration of the mosque, some the crushed level country with the shops, and the level with the supplication area, the restoration-repositioning successful the courtyard country of the Fountain of Purification and the erection of the minaret. The works are being completed with the lighting of the monument, the installation of a occurrence extortion and lightning extortion system. Our extremity is to reintegrate an emblematic monument into the taste representation of Kos, portion upgrading the representation of the island's humanities center." The Defterdar Mosque is located successful the halfway of Kos town. It was built successful 1770 - 1780 connected the ruins of Christian and Roman temples. The mosque has been declared a humanities monument and is located wrong the declared archaeological site. The Fountain of Purification is simply a operation of 1936, by the Italians, aft the finalization of the caller municipality program of Kos municipality and the enactment of Eleftherias Square.
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