Aladža Mosque (Foča)

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Aladža mosque

The Aladža Mosque ( Aladža džamija; Šarena džamija, džamija Hasana Nezira ; Colorful Mosque) is a mosque in Foča in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina that was built in 1550 and blown up in 1992 and has been rebuilt since 2016. It was considered to be one of the most architecturally significant in the European part of the Ottoman Empire , the then Rumelia . Its reconstruction is expected to be completed in 2018.

history

Hassan Naziri, the overseer of state goods and finances in Herzegovina, initiated the construction . The builder was Ramadan Aga, trained in the Persian culture. In the wake of the Bosnian War , the mosque was blown up on April 22, 1992 and the remains were then removed.

investment

Interior during the reconstruction

Like the Ali Pascha Mosque in Sarajevo and the Sinan Beg Mosque in Čajniče, the mosque belonged to the “classical” style, which can also be assigned to the Gazi Husrev Beg Mosque in Sarajevo. Their floor plan was almost square (11.22 m by 11.30 m). The dome , which was 11 m in diameter , rose above an octagonal drum . The height to the top of the dome was 19.85 m. Three sides of the mosque were pierced by five windows each, in front of the front there was a vestibule with pointed arched arcades supported by four marble columns and three domes. The minaret was 36 m high. In the mihrab , minbar and mahvil in the interior there was an Islamic stone sculpture, which was considered the most beautiful in the Balkans ( Trifunović ). The mosque was decorated with pictures, including a rose window on the north wall with floral decorations and wall paintings in the vestibule.

reconstruction

Remains of the well-documented mosque were found in the rubble around 200 m south of the iron bridge over the Drina and around 300 m north of this bridge. The area on which the mosque stood has been fenced off. The reconstruction is carried out by a federal commission ( Komisija za očuvanje nacionalinih spomenika BiH ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lazar Trifunović: Art Monuments in Yugoslavia Vol. I, P. XXXII

literature

  • Lazar Trifunović: Art Monuments in Yugoslavia, Volume 1 (AO). A picture manual. Leipzig 1981: Edition Leipzig, p. 368f with photos 111 - 113, without ISBN.
  • Andrej Andrejević: Aladža džamija u Foči, Filozofski fakultet u Beogradu, Institut za istoriju umetnosti, 1972, 103 pages, OL19219747M;
  • Šemso Tucaković: Aladža džamija - fočanski biser , El-Kalem, 1991, 57 pages;
  • Šemso Tucaković: Aladža džamija-ubijeni monument, Sarajevo: In-t za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava, 1998, 270 pages, ISBN 9958740028 .


Coordinates: 43 ° 30 ′ 19.6 ″  N , 18 ° 46 ′ 47.4 ″  E