Ghazi Husrev-beg

Ghazi Husrev-beg
The Gazi Husrev-Beg Mosque was built by the famous Ottoman architect Mirnar Sinan and is considered to be one of the most important Islamic buildings in Bosnia. Gazi Husrev-beg had it constructed by the Persian architect in an early Istanbul style in 1531. The 45m-high minaret towers over the 26m-high dome and the surrounding area.

The grounds include an abdest hana, or washing room, a wooden
sadrvan (fountain), a mekteb, or primary school, and a muvekithana, or prayer caller’s home. To the left are two elaborate 16th century buildings. The large red house in the enclosed garden behind the Careva mosque was the official residence of the Ottoman rulers of Bosnia, and is also the place where the heavily wounded Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were brought, and died, after they had been shot by Gavrilo Princip in 1914.

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