The Veli Pasha Mosque is a historic Ottoman building founded in 1651 by Veli Pasha, an official who participated in Rethymno's conquest. It is said to be the oldest mosque in Rethymno.
The building has a square plan and has six domes. Its minaret stands in the northwestern corner. It was built on the remains of the Venetian church of Agios Onoufrios.
Today the mosque houses the Paleontological Museum Rethymnon.
The Kara Musa Pasha Mosque in Rethymno is an Ottoman mosque built in the 1600s, shortly after the Ottomans annexed Crete to their empire.
The church of the Four Martyrs is a place of worship dedicated to the four Cretan martyrs (Aggelis, Emmanouil, Georgios and Nikolaos) who were executed by the Ottomans in 1824 after refusing to convert to Islam. It was inaugurated in 1975.
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