From Mosque to Parliament: The Vouleftiko (Parliament) Mosque in Nafplio and the Spatial Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State during the Greek Revolution

Abstract

This paper traces the history of a mosque built by Ragıb Pasha in Nafplio just before the outbreak of the Greek Revolution in 1821. The mosque was converted in 1825, into the first Parliament House of Greece and today survives as the Vouleftiko (Parliament) Mosque in Nafplio. Through the case study of the Vouleftiko mosque, we approach the spatial transformation of buildings as a distinct research area of the history of the Greek Revolution, which is at the same time a history of transition―from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek state.