Mustafa Komadina (1839 – 6 May 1925) was a business and political figure from

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. He served as a mayor from 1909 until 1918. Under his supervision many modern buildings were constructed and it came to look like a Central European city.Mujaga Komadina Elementary School in Mostar - In Bosnian

History

Komadina was a successful businessmanMustafa Mujaga Komadina – legendary mostar mayor - In Bosnian
/ref> and occasionally offered to finance projects with his personal funds. Mustafa Komadina was born in Mostar in "Husein-hodža mahala" in today's Carina neighborhood. He was educated in maktab and at

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s, and spoke fluent Turkish and German. Mustafa loved to read and owned a large library which contained mostly the works in Turkish. He was among the founders of Mostar's "Volunteer fire department" from 1885 where he invested fifty florins. At the end of Ottoman rule in the city, Mostar had two public baths. Mustafa was delighted with a bath he saw in Budapest and in May 1911 he proposed a bathhouse project to district authorities in Mostar. A drawing was made by a Mostar native, Miroslav Loose, the then manager of the municipal water supply. On Mustafa's recommendation, the Council sent Loose abroad to study public bathhouses. Mostar Bathhouse opened on 3 June 1914. The brief speech was recorded as: "Folks, here's the bathhouse for those who have money, for those who don't, here's

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". Mujaga visited Italy on 7 April 1925, twenty-nine days prior to his death on 6 May. He was buried at the Lakišić mosque in Ričina neighborhood.MOSTAR LEGENDS: Mujaga Komadina - In Bosnian
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