DIZDAREVA (ŽENSKA / WOMEN’S) MOSQUE IN JAJCE

Author: Ekrem Tucaković, PhD, Riyasat of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Photo & video: Mirza Hasanefendić

 

In 2003, the Dizdar or Women's Mosque in Jajce was designated as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The mosque is located in the upper part of town known as Gornja Mahala, immediately beside the Jajce citadel. It was commissioned by Sulejman-bey Kulenović in 1812/13. The year of the construction is recorded on the chronogram above the portal that survived until 1992. 

The Dizdar Mosque in Jajce belongs to the typological series of central single-space mosques without sofas and minaret, with a masonry dome concealed by a tent-like hipped roof. The same typological disposition, which is not common in Bosnia and Herzegovina, can be observed on the Sinan-bey (Okića) Mosque in Jajce, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the Dizdar Mosque.

The external dimensions of the building are 5.70x6.60x5.80x6.45 m. The interior of the mosque is plastered and decorated with traditional floral motifs – garlands and leaves. The building used to have a steeply pitched hipped roof, like the surrounding residential houses, with a covering of chestnut-wood shingles. The mosque did not have a minaret.

The building was in the authentic state until 1992. It was reconstructed in 2002, when the walls and the dome were reconstructed, the roof structure and joinery were and work on the interior was carried out.

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