Mostar Turist Quality Project

To See

MOSQUES

Karadjoz-Beg Mosque (Karađozbegova) (1557)

Mostar is a city rich in mosques, to be found in each and every district, which well represent the typical Ottoman style. Small but elegant, both from an architectural and a cultural point of view in a wider sense, these are buildings that are well worth visiting not only for the beauty of their interiors but also for tangible evidence of the life and culture of the Ottoman period in Bosnia Herzegovina.

The Karadjoz-Beg mosque, slightly outside the city centre, is one of the most representative monuments of sacred Islamic architecture in the 16th century. Built in 1557 according to a project of the Turkish architect Kodža Mimar Sinan, it is internally decorated with sumptuous arabesques and phytomorphic drawings. According to the style and tradition of the period, the mosque is flanked by other buildings in its courtyard: a fountain for washing (sadrvan), an Islamic school (madrasa), a library and even a public kitchen for the poor. Damaged during the war, the Karadjoz-Beg mosque and its minaret have now been reopened to the public for visiting, after a long and careful restoration. Behind the mosque there is the most antique Muslim cemetery of the city.

Hadzi-Kurt Mosque
(Tabačica) (end of 16th cent. - beginning of 17th cent.)

This mosque was built between the 16th and 17th centuries, as desired by Hajji Kurt, member of the ancient Mostar Kurt family. Standing on the right bank of the River Neretva, at about 100 metres from the Old Bridge, this mosque was next to the antique Tabhana, the district where leather processing and sale workshops were once found; and this fact reveals the mystery of its name, deriving actually from the term Tabaci (leather tanners).

A row of small surrounding shops and its location make the Tabačica mosque one of the most frequently visited in Mostar.

Koski Mehmed-Pasha Mosque
(Koski Mehmed-Pašina) (1617)

This mosque was built at the beginning of the 17th century by Koski Mehmed-Pasha. From the minaret, at only five metres from the Neretva River, a spectacular panoramic view of the city can be enjoyed. The welcoming atmosphere within the courtyard offers a pleasant, relaxing break in a unique and romantic context.

Nesuh-Aga Vučjaković Mosque (1564 approx.)

Toward the half of the 16th century – according to some sources around 1564 – Nesuh-Aga Vucyakovic erected a mosque beneath the Clock Tower, near the Kujundžiluk and the Old Bridge, also well-known as the 'mosque under the lime-tree'.

This building is unusual due to its artistic influences deriving from the coastal area (Dalmation- Mediterranean School) seen in some of its decorative elements.