Gazi Husrev Bey Mosque

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A group of Muslims bow in prayer outside the Gazi Husrev Bey Mosque in Sarajevo's Old Town, with green flags bearing crescent symbols hanging above.

Gazi Husrev Bey Mosque

mosque, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Sarajevo
…city’s principal mosques are the Gazi Husreff-Bey’s Mosque, or Begova Džamija (1530), and the Mosque of Ali Pasha (1560–61). Husreff-Bey also built the medrese (madrasah), a Muslim school of theology; the Imaret, a free kitchen for the poor; and the hamam, public baths. A late 16th-century clock tower is adjacent…
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…city’s principal mosques are the Gazi Husreff-Bey’s Mosque, or Begova Džamija (1530), and the Mosque of Ali Pasha (1560–61). Husreff-Bey also built the medrese (madrasah), a Muslim school of theology; the Imaret, a free kitchen for the poor; and the hamam, public baths. A late 16th-century clock tower is adjacent…
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