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Karađoz Beg Mosque

Braće Fejića, Mostar 88000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Place Types Mosque
Address Braće Fejića, Mostar 88000, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinate 43.3413591,17.8139636
Website http://www.islamskazajednica.ba/
Rating 5
Compound Code 8RR7+GH Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina

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Yasser Ashfaq (09/12/2020)

a 16th-century Ottoman mosque, An Arabic foundation inscription on the mosque records that it was commissioned by Mehmed Beg b. Abu al-Saʿadat’ who was a brother of a vizier in the year AH 965 (1557-58). The mosque may have been designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. It is in the form of a domed cube fronted by a double portico. The mosque was severely damaged during World War II, and faced near destruction during the Bosnian War in the early 1990s. However, Karađoz Mosque, like the rest of Mostar, underwent extensive repairs between 2002 and 2004. The mosque was completely renovated, and reopened to the public in July 2004.

Omar Sulejmanović (05/26/2020)

Beautiful architecture inside and out. An ornament on an already very fine city.

Hussein Horack (02/01/2020)

Beautiful architecture inside and out. An ornament on an already very fine city.

Mihai Marinescu (07/25/2019)

The mosque is great,but it is only open at prayer times,which means that except for a few hours a day Muslims can only pray outside,on the carpet in front of the entrance (no joke!!),facing a closed door. Apart from charging everyone for going up the minaret (which is understandable), they charge non-muslims for ENTERING the mosque,and the fee is not that small. As a Muslim i wonder-how can that be?? Isn't God's house supposed to be open and at least always free of charge,for Muslims and non-Muslims alike (of course if they observe the proper rules of respect)? When i asked some lady outside why it is closed most of the time,she said there is no money to keep someone there at all times. So...one of the most famous and beautiful historical mosques in the whole of Bosnia goes as low as to charge non-Muslims JUST FOR GOING IN...but still, they cannot afford to keep a person there from dawn till night,for people who actually USE the place for its usual purpose? What's next,brothers and sisters? what will happen if business goes bad - you will start asking Muslims themselves to pay to enter your "museum" and pray? Honestly, I was sad and ashamed to see how people can turn a place of worship of God into yet another tourist trap...first time i see this in the Muslim world,and hopefully the last...good luck with your "business", salaam!