In the heart of Athens in the old district of Plaka, Monastiraki Square is located in the mosque Tsisdaraki. This Ottoman mosque of the 18th century, today functions as a museum.

In the mid-18th century Mustafa Tsisdaraki was governor of Athens, he built this mosque in 1759 (what the inscription on the mosque). The Athenians believed mosque cursed place and blamed the outbreak of famine. The reason for this was the general Tsisdaraki. He used to build a mosque a few columns from the Temple of Olympian Zeus, caught barbaric way. As he did so without the permission of the Sultan, he was fined and expelled from the post of governor. After the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821, the minaret of the mosque was destroyed.

After independence, the building of the mosque was transferred to the army. In those years, the mosque was used as a prison, barracks and warehouses. In 1915, the mosque was restored in its original form. In 1918 it housed the "Museum of Greek crafts", renamed in 1923 in "The National Museum of Decorative Arts." In 1959 the museum was again renamed the "Museum of Greek Folk Art." In 1973, the main collection of the museum and the main have been moved to a new building, located in the old Plaka district of Athens Street Kidatineon. The mosque was Tsisdaraki branch of the museum, where a collection of folk art pottery Kiriazopulosa.

In 1981, as a result of the earthquake the building of the mosque was badly damaged, but in 1991, renovated the museum was opened again.