Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Çarşı Mosque)

Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as Çarşı Mosque, is the oldest mosque in Zenica and has been declared a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was built in the early Ottoman period, although no documents about its founder or the year it was erected have been preserved. The oldest written record about this beautiful place of worship tells us about the renovation of the mosque that happened around 1506/1507. This is proof that it existed even before the 16th century. The mosque was destroyed several times: in 1697 during the great Battle of Vienna and in 1869 due to major flooding, but every time it was rebuilt from scratch. As one of the rarities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zenica happens to have one of the 35 Sultan’s mosques in Zenica. Repair work undertaken in 1914 by Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on Sultan-Ahmed Mosque and the mosque got first electricity in 1914.