The Sarajevo Clock Tower (Bosnian: Sarajevska sahat-kula) is a clock tower in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located beside Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque and is the tallest of the 21 clock towers erected throughout the country, reaching a height of 30 meters. The tower was declared a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006.
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The clock shows lunar time, in which the hands indicate 12 o'clock at the moment of sunset, the time of the Muslim Maghrib prayer.[1] A caretaker sets the clock's time manually once a week.[2][3]
History edit
The Sarajevo Clock Tower was constructed by Gazi Husrev-beg, a governor of the area during the Ottoman period.[4] The earliest known documented mention of the tower dates to the 17th century in a work by Evliya Çelebi. It was rebuilt twice, once after fire damage when the city was attacked by Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1697, and again in 1762.[5]
In 1874, the clock was replaced by a mechanism made by Gillett & Bland of London. The previous Turkish mechanism was moved to a mosque in the neighbourhood of Vratnik.[citation needed]
In 1967, the clock was repaired, and the hands and numbers on all four clock faces were gilt.[citation needed]
In 2006, the clock tower was declared a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[6]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Marinković, Aziza (2 February 2017). "Sahat-kula, jedini lunarni sat u Evropi". Al Jazeera Balkans (in Croatian). Al Jazeera Media Network. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ Strochlic, Nina. "This Man Keeps Time on the World's Last Lunar Clock". National Geographic. National Geographic Society. Archived from the original on 18 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ Bastug, Emre; Girit, Ilker (18 December 2017). "Elderly man adjusting lunar clock for half a century". Anadolu Agency. AA News Broadcasting. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ Cuvalo, Ante (2010). The A to Z of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 209. ISBN 0810876477. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Sarajevo has the only Public Lunar Clock in the World!". Sarajevo Times. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Clock Tower in Sarajevo". Bosnia Hezegovina Commission to Preserve National Monuments. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
External links edit
- Media related to Sahat kula in Sarajevo at Wikimedia Commons