Bajrakli Mosque, Belgrade

The Bajrakli Mosque (Serbian Бајракли џамија / Bajrakli džamija, German flags about mosque originally Čohadži Mosque ) is the last remaining from the original mosque 80 mosques in the Serbian capital Belgrade. It is situated in Stari Grad district in Gospodar Jevremova 11 The mosque was named at the end of the 18th century, because a flag was hoisted on it, which gave the signal for the simultaneous prayer beginning in the other mosques in the city.

History

Built originally in 1575 probably mosque was built from 1660 to 1688 (the data in the different sources are not uniform ). Between 1717 and 1739, the mosque was used as a Roman Catholic church, but then came back to the Muslim cult that is still alive today after an interruption from 1878 to 1893. Damage from the Second World War have been fixed to 1961; simultaneously a static backup of the minaret was held. 2004, the mosque was set in response to pogrom-like riots and attacks against churches and monasteries in Kosovo on fire and damaged, but restored in the sequence. Since 1981, the mosque as a cultural monument of great importance ( Spomenici kulture od velikog značaja ) protected.

Plant

It is a domed mosque with a minaret. The dome rests on an octagonal drum, each with a pointed arched windows on each side, standing on a cubic space.