Čemaluša mosque (''Bosnian: Čemaluševa džamija / Turkish: Cemaluşa camii'') also known as Havadža Kemaludin mosque was a

mosque A mosque ( ), also called a masjid ( ), is a place of worship for Muslims. The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Salah, Islamic prayers are performed; such as an outdoor courtyard. Originally, mosques were si ...

located between the

Ferhadija street Ferhadija street is one of main pedestrian streets in Sarajevo, located in the municipalities of Centar and Stari Grad. The street is named after Ferhad-bey Vuković-Desisalić, a Bosnian sanjak-bey who lived in the 16th century. Ferhadija stre ...

and the Maršala Tito street and was located at the corner of the street with the same name, Čemaluša. The modern day residential and business building also named after Havadža Kemaludin (simply known as JAT building) stands there.

History

Čemaluša mosque was designed and built in 1515 by Havadža Kemaludin who was a student at that time. The mosque had a stone

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located on the left, a roof on four waters, covered with shingles. The arched windows were framed with

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and

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. The wide ceiling above the

mihrab ''Mihrab'' (, ', pl. ') is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the ''qibla'', the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a ''mihrab'' appears is thus the "''qibla'' wall". ...

with stalactites was filled with tiny pieces of multicolored carved wood. Ablution was performed on two fountains - male and female water. Next to the mosque was a large

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, surrounded by a wall, which dates back to the time of the

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. Members of the Hadžimusić, Novo and Dženetić families were buried in the

harem A harem is a domestic space that is reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. A harem may house a man's wife or wives, their pre-pubescent male children, unmarried daughters, female domestic Domestic worker, servants, and other un ...

of Čemaluša. War veteran Mustaj-beg Dženetić, who died in 1874, bequeathed a hundred ducats to the

waqf A (; , plural ), also called a (, plural or ), or ''mortmain'' property, is an Alienation (property law), inalienable charitable financial endowment, endowment under Sharia, Islamic law. It typically involves donating a building, plot ...

in his will with an explicit order to bury him between the two oldest

martyr A martyr (, ''mártys'', 'witness' Word stem, stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In ...

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. Following the arrival of

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, the Čemaluša street began to abruptly rise with traditional Bosnian houses being replaced with buildings which spanned through Ferhadija. Čemaluša mosque was demolished in 1940 by the government of the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" () h ...

who ordered the demolition in June 1939.

Reuf Kadić Reuf may refer to: *Reuf Bajrović, politician *Reuf Duraković, footballer * Reuf Pasha, dispatched from Constantinople to Slivna Slivna () is a settlement west of Vače in the Municipality of Litija in central Slovenia. The area is part of th ...

later designed and built the modern day JAT building in 1947.

Literature

* Emir Kadić - Reuf Kadić and the beginnings of modern architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo, 2010 *

Živorad Janković Živorad "Žika" Janković (1924–1990) was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav and Bosnian architect. Biography Janković was born to ethnic Serbian family on August 19, 1924 in Višegrad, Yugoslavia. He finished his higher education in Sarajevo, and go ...

- Muhamed Kadić - life and work, Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH, Sarajevo. * Alija Bejtić - Streets and squares of Sarajevo. * Nedžad Kurto - Sarajevo 1492–1992, Oko, Sarajevo. *

Predrag Milošević Predrag Milošević (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Милошевић; February 4, 1904 in Knjaževac – January 4, 1988 in Belgrade) was a composer, conductor, pianist, pedagogue, and music writer. As one of those musicians from Serbia who co ...

- Architecture in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Sarajevo 1918–1941). Foča: Prosvjeta, 1997 *

References

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