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Description
Property Name: Karadjozbeg Mosque
Inventory No: 387-36-3
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2007-12-27
Country (State party): Bosnia and Herzegovina
Province : Hercegovina-Neretva Canton
Town: Mostar
Geographic coordinates: 43° 20′ 28.12″ N
17° 48′ 49.42″ E
Historic Period: Classic Ottoman (1453-1579)
Year of Construction: 1577
Style: Classical Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Architect Sinan
Significance
The mosque represents a unique example of the Classical Ottoman mosque architecture with perfect structural concept and use of technology of its time, composition of volumes, proportion of all elements and valuable details. Project was realized by the office of the greatest architect of the Ottoman State Architect Sinan. In the painting decoration, the mosque has evidence of a particular regional manner. The building is part of the ensemble together with madrasa, shadervan and cemetery.
Selection Criteria
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
State of Preservation
Karadjozbeg mosque is in very good condition after the restoration/reconstruction of minaret. Second porch and smaller restoration intervention on the exterior of the building have been completed in 2003, rehabilitation of the courtyard and shadrvan were completed in June 2004, and works on the interior-restoration of the paintings were completed in December 2004.
References
Restoration of the Karađoz-beg Mosque in Mostar, Report by The Research Centre for Islamic History,Àrt and Culture, Istanbul 2004.
Karadjozbeg mosque in Mostar, the architectural ensemble, Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo 2004.
Pašić Amir, The Old City of Mostar, Nomination dossier for the World Heritage List, Mostar 2005.
Pašić Amir, Celebrating Mostar, Mostar 2005.