REPRESENTATIVE MODELS OF ISLAMIC ARTS IN PLJEVLJE: THE MOSQUE AND THE WAQF OF HUSEIN PASHA BOLJANIĆ

Abstract

UDK 061.27(497.16 pljevlja)”15”

As exceptionally influential person who held high ranking offices in Ottoman Porte, Husein paša Boljanić (?-1594.), born in the suburbs of Pljevlje has, by establishing his waqf initiated social, economic and cultural development of Pljevlje (Taslidže) in the 16th century. The central Pljevlje mosque, named after him, has a distinctive place in the Husein pasha’s waqf. It is listed among most representative mosques with a dome of the classical Ottoman period in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The representative character of its project, the harmony of proportions, lavish decoration of interior, and especially, very rare in the architecture of this period a characteristic detail of high tholobate (drum) that is holding the dome which is strengthened from the outer side by pilasters, and keeping in mind the significance and the ranking of Husein pasha – all lead to assertion that the architect who made the plan for this mosque was mimmar Hayreddin, who was also the architect of The Old Bridge in Mostar.