Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mosque in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Karađoz Bey Mosque, a short walk from the Old Bridge, is the largest mosque in Mostar and one of the largest in Herzegovina. It was completed in 1557 to 1558 under the Ottomans, commissioned according to its Arabic inscription by Mehmed Beg, brother of an Ottoman vizier, and may have been designed by Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect. It is a domed cube with a large dome about 10.65 metres across, set on a windowed octagonal drum, fronted by a double portico: an inner one of three small domes on four marble columns, and an outer one with a sloping roof on octagonal pillars. Its slender stone minaret rises about 34.5 metres. The courtyard has an ablution fountain and a small cemetery with Ottoman headstones, and an old madrasa stands next door. The mosque was damaged in the Second World War and largely destroyed during the Bosnian War in the early 1990s, then rebuilt and reopened in 2004, the same year the Old Bridge returned.
Visitors are welcome outside prayer times in modest dress; women cover their hair, shoes off. Climb the narrow minaret stairs for one of the best views in Mostar, over the old town, the bridge and the Neretva. Allow thirty minutes to an hour. It is on Braće Fejića street, a few minutes' walk from the bridge.
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