Ferhat Pasha Mosque (Sarajevo)

Coordinates: 43°51′32″N 18°25′38″E / 43.8590°N 18.4271°E

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Ferhadija Mosque

Religion
Affiliation	Sunni Islam
Location
Location	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Geographic coordinates	43°51′32″N 18°25′38″E / 43.8590°N 18.4271°E / 43.8590; 18.4271
Architecture
Type	Mosque
Style	Ottoman architecture
Completed	16th century
Specifications
Dome(s)	1
Minaret(s)	1

Ferhadija Mosque (Bosnian: Ferhat-pašina džamija, Turkish: Ferhad Paşa Camii), also known as Ferhat Pasha Mosque, is a central building in the city of Sarajevo built by Bosnian Sanjak-bey (governor) Ferhad-beg Vuković, a descendant of the famous mediaeval Vuković family.^[1]^[2] This mosque has one dome above the prayer area and three small domes at the cloister and is one of the greatest achievements of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 16th century Ottoman and Islamic architecture.

The Ferhadija mosque reflects the full maturity of the classical Ottoman style-domed mosque, portico with small domes, and beautiful built-on minaret.

Research works on the painted decoration inside the mosque carried out in 1964–1965 revealed five painted layers dating from various periods.^[3] The oldest and extremely valuable decorations of the first layer date from the 16th century (in the dome, on the cornice and pendentives, the base of the corner calottes, the mihrab and the lunettes of the lower row of windows), belonging to the group known as Rumi ornament, which were also to be seen in the Aladža Mosque in Foča.

The next layers (on the calottes, central part of the mihrab, and surface of the dome) consists of purely floral decorations with the features of 18th-century style. The third and fourth layers date from the late 19th century (1878), and the first quarter of the 20th.

The mosque was damaged during the Bosnian War in 1992–1995.

References

^ Bosnia and Herzegovina Commission to Preserve National Monuments: Decision, footnote #3 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ Sarajevo Official Web Site: Ferhadija Mosque Archived 2015-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Ferhadija Mosque - Sarajevo". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-04-13.

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v t e Mosques in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bihać	Fethija
Banja Luka	Arnaudija Ferhat Pasha
Mostar	Karađoz Bey Koski Mehmed Pasha
Sarajevo	Ali Pasha's Baitus Salam Čobanija Emperor's Ferhadija Gazi Husrev-beg's Hadžijska Istiklal King Fahd Muslihudin Čekrekčija
Foča	Aladža Mehmed Pasha Kukavica
Tuzla	Atik Behram Bey Gazi Turali-begova (Poljska) Hadži Hasan
Zenica	Sejmen Sultan-Ahmed
Elsewhere	Hajji Ahmed the Ducat Minter's (Livno) Šerefudin's White (Visoko)
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