Wikipedia's first sentence called it “largest mosque in bulgaria and among the largest on the balkans”. Today it says “mosque located in shumen”.
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Tombul (or Tumbul) Mosque (Томбул джамия), located in Shumen , is the largest mosque in Bulgaria and among the largest on the Balkans .1Built between 1740 and 1744 , it was initially located in the northeastern Bulgarian (then Ottoman ) town's centre, but is now in Shumen's southwest parts as the town centre shifted. The mosque's name comes from the shape of its dome. The mosque's complex consists of a main edifice (a prayer hall), a yard and a twelve-room extension (a boarding house of the madrasa ). The main edifice is in its fundamental part a square, then becomes an octagon passing to a circle in the middle part, and is topped by a spheric dome that is 25 m above ground. The interior has mural paintings of vegetable life and geometric figures and features a lot of inscriptions in Arabic , phrases from the Qur'an .2
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View from the yard The Sherif Halil Pasha Mosque , ( ), more commonly known as the Tombul (or Tumbul) Mosque , located in Shumen , is the largest mosque in Bulgaria and one of the largest on the Balkan .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
View from the yard The Sherif Halil Pasha Mosque , ( ), more commonly known as the Tombul (or Tumbul) Mosque , located in Shumen , is the largest mosque in Bulgaria and one of the largest in the Balkans .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Mosque in Shumen, Bulgaria View from the yard The Sherif Halil Pasha Mosque , ( Bulgarian : Томбул джамия Turkish : Tombul Camii ), more commonly known as the Tombul (or Tumbul) Mosque , located in Shumen , is the largest mosque in Bulgaria and one of the largest in the Balkans .
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largest mosque in bulgaria and among the largest on the balkans
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mosque located in shumen
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