Hadum mosque
The Hadum Mosque ( Albanian Xhamia e Hadumit , Serbian Хадум џамија Hadum džamija ) or Chadim Mosque ( Xhamia Hadëm ) is a historic Ottoman mosque built in 1592 in the old bazaar of the Kosovar city of Đakovica . It is considered an architectural one-off in Kosovo and throughout Serbia .
Building history
The mosque was built by Sylejman Efendia (Soliman Aga Bizeban), the harem guard of Sultan Murad III from Guska near Đakovica . , built. Hadum means servant or eunuch , and Sylejman Efendia served as the eunuch in Topkapı Palace . After his return from Constantinople , he built the mosque at the same time as a school on the grounds of Jakë Vula; today's city of Đakovica developed out of these two structures. A library was added to the mosque in the 18th century, and in the 19th century the mosque received its unique decoration with Ottoman calligraphy and floral elements ( arabesques ).
The complex's hammam was destroyed during World War II , but the greatest damage occurred during the Kosovo War in 1999, when Serb paramilitaries and police officers set fire to the mosque complex and tore down the minaret on the evening of the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia . The historical library containing centuries-old manuscripts, in which the history of the Hadum Mosque was archived, was burned down along with the wooden portico.
During an unprofessional "renovation" by the Joint Relief Committee from Saudi Arabia , the damaged library of the mosque and the historical medrese (religious school) were bulldozed and removed in 2000. From 2003 to 2005, the Hadum Mosque was restored by the Cultural Heritage Without Borders organization with support from the US Packard Foundation ; with the help of UNESCO , she also restored the old wall paintings for € 115,000 from 2008 to 2009.
construction
On a rectangular plan in the traditional style of Mimar Sinan built Hadum mosque has a minaret and a large dome, which is 13.5 meters high - in addition to the prayer hall which has 12.6 meters. It has eleven pointed arch windows, some of which are decorated with stars of David . The prayer niche ( mihrapi ) is on the southwest side and the pulpit ( mimberi ) is made of wood, as is the mehfili , the gallery for women on the northwest side, which is supported by wooden pillars and can be reached via the steps of the minaret. The vestibule, called hajat , has three arches upwards. The 31 meter high minaret has a pencil tip , its scissors (balcony) consists of a few rows of rock.
A special feature of the mosque are the sound tubes at the corners, which create a special acoustics, and the many decorations with geometric shapes and Koran quotations inscriptions, which are considered to be Islamo-Albanian baroque .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hadum džamija, Đakovica. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
- ^ A b Zeynep Ahunbay: Restoration of the Hadum Mosque in Gjakovo. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 10, 2016 ; accessed on May 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Conservation and restoration of wall paintings and wooden decoration in Hadum Mosque, Gjakova. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
Coordinates: 42 ° 22 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 20 ° 25 ′ 38.3 ″ E