Ferhat Pasha Mosque
Ottoman mosque of 1579, dynamited in 1993 and rebuilt stone by stone, reopened in 2016.
The Ferhadija, as it is known locally, was endowed by Ferhad Pasha Sokolovic, sanjak-bey of Bosnia, and completed in 1579. It follows the classical Ottoman single-dome plan: a square prayer hall roughly eighteen metres across, a triple-domed porch, and a slender stone minaret of about forty-three metres. The design is usually attributed to a pupil of the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. Around it stood a complex of turbes, a fountain courtyard and a cemetery, forming the historic centre of Muslim Banja Luka.
On the night of 6-7 May 1993 the mosque was dynamited and the rubble carted to a municipal tip. Fragments were later recovered from the dump and from a river bed, catalogued, and used in a reconstruction that ran from 2001 to 2016; roughly half the visible stone is original. The rebuilt mosque was reopened on 7 May 2016, twenty-three years to the night after its destruction. It is a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the surrounding courtyard, sadrvan and turbes have been restored with it.
Highlights
- Classical Ottoman single-dome plan with a forty-three metre stone minaret
- Roughly half the rebuilt fabric is original stone recovered after 1993
- Courtyard with restored sadrvan fountain and the founder's turbe
- Designated a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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