Ferhat Pasha Mosque
Ferhat Pasha Mosque, also known as ''Ferhadija Mosque'', may refer to: Bosnia and Herzegovina *Ferhat Pasha Mosque (Banja Luka) Ferhat Pasha Mosque ( bs, Ferhat-pašina džamija, tr, Ferhad Paşa Camii), also known as the Ferhadija Mosque, is a mosque in the city of Banja Luka and one of the greatest achievements of Bosnia and Herzegovina's 16th century Ottoman Islamic ... * Ferhat Pasha Mosque (Sarajevo) See also

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Ferhat Pasha Mosque (Banja Luka)
Ferhat Pasha Mosque ( bs, Ferhat-pašina džamija, tr, Ferhad Paşa Camii), also known as the Ferhadija Mosque, is a mosque in the city of Banja Luka and one of the greatest achievements of Bosnia and Herzegovina's 16th century Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Islamic architecture. The mosque was demolished in 1993 at the order of the authorities of Republika Srpska as a part of Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War, ethnic cleansing campaign, and was rebuilt and opened on 7 May 2016. Commissioned by the Bosnian Sanjak-bey Ferhad Pasha Sokolović, the mosque was built in 1579 with money that, as tradition has it, were paid by the Principality of Auersperg, Auersperg family for the severed head of the Habsburg general Herbard VIII von Auersperg and the ransom for the general's son after a battle at the Croatian border in 1575, where Ferhad Pasha was triumphant. The mosque with its Ottoman architecture#Classical period (1437–1703), classical Ottoman architecture was most probably designed ...
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