The Nijaz Duraković Park, formerly and also known as Hastahana, is a park located in Marijin Dvor neighborhood in Centar municipality of

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History

The park is located close to the Magribija mosque in Marijin Dvor. ''Hastahana'' means hospital in Turkish, and the place hosted an old hospital during Ottoman times, originally property of

Gazi Husrev-beg Gazi Husrev Bey (, ''Gāzī Ḫusrev Beğ''; Modern Turkish: ''Gazi Hüsrev Bey''; ; 1484–1541) was an Ottoman Bosnian sanjak-bey (governor) of the Sanjak of Bosnia in 1521–1525, 1526–1534, and 1536–1541. He was known for his succes ...

's endowment ('' vakuf''). In the 1960s the site was used as a Yugoslav military hospital, and during the

siege of Sarajevo The siege of Sarajevo () was a prolonged military blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the ethnically charged Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by Serbian forces of the Yugoslav People's Arm ...

the open-air lot was cultivated as a vegetable garden. Since 1999, the regulatory plan of Sarajevo envisaged the construction on the site of a museum of the city. However this never happened, due to lack of funding. Since 2005, the park hosted the artistic installation "Star Trek", donated by German artist Helmut Lutz, which had been installed in many other locations, including Rome, Athens, Jerusalem, Istanbul. The sculpture group was removed in August 2020 to allow the construction works.N1
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7 Aug 2020 In May 2018, the park was named after Bosnian intellectual and politician

Nijaz Duraković Nijaz Duraković (1 January 1949 – 29 January 2012) was a Bosnian author, intellectual, professor and politician who served as the last president of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1989 to 1991. He is widely considered ...

. In April 2019, the local council of Centar decided that the site would be redeveloped to host a building and underground parking, while remaining for 90% a green area.Žurnal
6 June 2019 This led to protests of citizens in 2019–2020, led by the group "Jedan grad, Jedna borba" (One town, one fight.) supported by

SDP BiH The Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosnian: ''Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine'' (SDP BiH) / ''Социјалдемократска партија Босне и Херцеговине''), also simply known as th ...

. On 25 September 2019, the municipal mayor of Centar, Nedžad Ajnadžić, and his SDA-SBB-GS-DF majority, voted to amend a regulatory plan for Marijin Dvor, to allow the construction of a multi-storey underground garage, art pavilion, local community premises and other facilities, instead of the surface parking lot accessible from Kranjčevićeva, neighbouring the Hastahana park. The plot was sell to the

Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Centralna banka Bosne i Hercegovine'' / Централна банка Босне и Херцеговине) is the central bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in ...

in November 2019 for 4.7 million BAM (2.5 million euro). In February 2021, the new municipal mayor of Centar, Srđan Mandić ( Our Party), acknowledged that the construction works would go ahead on the plot owned by the Central Bank. Every year, several social events like "Summer in Hastahana Park" and "Sarajevo Holiday Market" are organized in the park.

References

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