Šerefudin's White Mosque

Sherefuddin’s White Mosque Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina It won The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1993. Šerefudin’s White Mosque is a thoughtfully-planned sacral building, and one of the town’s most valuable pieces of modern architecture. Built atop the site of a 15th century Ottoman mosque, the current building is named after the architect of the original structure. Though it has aged over time, losing much of its lustre, the mosque is still a striking sight on the streets of Visoko, with its modernist beauty and undulating stature. Tucked between numerous small shops and narrowly winding streets in downtown Visoko, the mosque was designed in 1969 by Bosnia’s leading modernist architect Zlatko Ugljen, now 86-years old, and built by Ismet Imamović. Upon entering the mosque, visitors are welcomed by a main prayer room that’s brightened by an irregularly shaped five-window roof design. The imam who currently serves at the mosque, Hafiz Edin Bukva, notes that the design is symbolic in nature, as it allows light ‘from above’ to reach the interior of the mosque. Its five windows, too, are metaphors for the five principles of Islam, and the five daily prayers. Must visit while in Bosnia.

Allah to reward all those who participated in the construction of this religious site.