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Ferhat Pasha Mosque
Also known as: Ferhat Pasha Mosque
mosque in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Key facts
- Built
- 1579
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Overview
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The Ferhat Pasha Mosque, widely known as the Ferhadija, stands in Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the Čaire district. It is named after Gazi Ferhad Pasha and belongs to the Ottoman architectural tradition. The mosque dates to 1579 and is listed as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before its destruction it was regarded as one of the most complete Ottoman achievements in the country and as a masterpiece of Islamic architecture, and it has since been rebuilt.
History
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The mosque was built in 1579 and for more than four centuries stood in the centre of Banja Luka.
In 1993, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was destroyed. It was later reconstructed and today is under heritage protection.
From Wikipedia
Ferhat Pasha Mosque (Bosnian: Ferhat-pašina džamija; Turkish: Ferhad Paşa Camii), also known as the Ferhadija Mosque, is a mosque in the city of Banja Luka and one of the greatest achievements of Bosnia and Herzegovina's 16th century Ottoman Islamic architecture. The mosque was demolished in 1993 at the order of the authorities of Republika Srpska as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign. It was rebuilt and opened on 7 May 2016.
Commissioned by the Bosnian Sanjak-bey Ferhad Pasha Sokolović, the mosque was built in 1579 with money that, as tradition has it, was paid by the Auersperg family for the severed head of the Habsburg general Herbard VIII von Auersperg and the ransom for the general's son after a battle at the Croatian border in 1575, where Ferhad Pasha was triumphant.
The mosque, with its classical Ottoman architecture, was most probably designed by a pupil of Mimar Sinan, the Ottoman chief architect. There is no written data about the builders who erected the mosque, but from analysing its architecture it appears that the foreman of the works was from Sinan's school since the mosque shows obvious similarities with Sinan's Muradiye Mosque in Manisa, Turkey, which dates from 1586.
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Sources
Wikipedia (ar): https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7
Wikipedia (de): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferhadija-Moschee
Wikipedia (en): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferhat_Pasha_Mosque_(Banja_Luka)
Wikipedia (fr): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosqu%C3%A9e_de_Fehrat-pacha
Wikipedia (id): https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Ferhat_Pasha
Wikipedia (ru): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%82-%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8
Wikipedia (tr): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferhad_Pa%C5%9Fa_Camii_(Banja_Luka)
Wikipedia (ur): https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7