Hadum Mosque
Late sixteenth-century mosque at the head of Gjakova's Grand Bazaar, with painted interior decoration.
The Hadum Mosque stands at the head of the Grand Bazaar in Gjakova, the long line of shops and workshops that gave the town its trade. It was endowed in the 1590s by Hadum Sylejman Aga and is generally dated to 1594 or 1595, making it the oldest surviving building in the town. Around it grew a complex that included a Quranic school, a library, a hamam, a fountain and a graveyard with carved sarcophagi, forming the historic centre of the settlement.
The mosque is a square prayer hall under a single dome with a porch of three smaller domes on columns and a slender stone minaret. The walls of the porch and the interior carry painted floral and geometric decoration of the Ottoman provincial tradition. The mosque and much of the bazaar were burned in 1999, and rebuilding has gone on since, with international support for the conservation of the painted surfaces. The restored complex is again in use and open to visitors outside prayers.
Highlights
- The oldest building in Gjakova, endowed in the 1590s
- Painted floral decoration on porch and interior walls
- Domed prayer hall with a three-bay porch and stone minaret
- Complex with graveyard, fountain and Quranic school
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