Imperial Mosque
The Emperor's Mosque ( Bosnian Careva džamija / Царева џамија , Turkish Hünkar Camii ) from Sarajevo is the second most important mosque in the city. It is located outside the city center on the left bank of the Miljacka .
The imperial mosque goes back to a predecessor building that was possibly built in the 1460s under the building of the margrave (Ottoman-Turkish ucbeği ) İshakoğlu İsa Beğ (in Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian: Isa-beg Isaković). This probably rather simple building was destroyed by an enemy incursion in the early 1560s and rebuilt by Sultan Suleyman I , this time with a dome.
The mosque was part of a complex that included a bathhouse ( hammam ), also built by İsa Beğ, as well as a residence (konak) and a library. Shortly before the First World War , an extension designed by the architect Karel Pařík in the “Bosnian homeland style” made the building complex the seat of the highest-ranking Islamic clergy in the country under Austro-Hungarian (and later Yugoslav) rule, the Reis-ulema, which was owned by the Monarchy installed a council of scholars ( ulema medžlis ) board.
The mosque is not named after Sultan Suleyman I , under whom the new building took place, but after Mehmet II , in whose second reign (1451-1481) the previous building fell. Today it is the place of activity of the Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina , Husein Kavazović .
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Coordinates: 43 ° 51 ′ 27 " N , 18 ° 25 ′ 49" E