Impossible to miss on the north side of Széchenyi Square is a striking reminder of Pécs’ 150-year Ottoman occupation in the 16th and 17th centuries.
This place of worship went up in 1580. And although its minaret was brought down a few decades after the Habsburgs retook the city at the start of the 18th century, the octagonal main body of the mosque was simply converted into a Catholic church.
