Hadim Suleiman Aga Mosque

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Part of site	Hadim Suleiman Aga Mosque Complex
Variant Names	Hadum Agha Mosque, Hadim Süleyman Aga Camii, Xhamia e Hadumit
Location	Djakovica, Serbia
Date	1592-93
Style/Period	Ottoman
Century	16
Building Type	religious
Building Usage	mosque

Notes

Hadum or Hadim Mosque, which means a servant, eunuch, was built at the end of the 16th century by Hadum Sulejman aga Bizeban, a servant in the imperial harem at the time of Sultan Murat III, born in the village of Guska near Djakovica. A closer year of its building as 1592/1593 (or 1003 according to the Hegira Islamic system of measuring time) was etermined on the basis of the data from the Prizren salnamams (yearly calendars for 1873 and 1874). The mosque belongs to the one-storey group with a porch covered by three cupolas. The central area is covered by the dome of diameter of 13.50 m supported by eight internal pilasters and trompes. The entry porch is supported by the monolith stone columns without bases. The porch was subsequently expanded by the three-guttered wooden roof. The slender minaret, 31 m high, is leaning against the wall of the mosque. The facades of the mosque are built with stone blocks, while the upper part of the minaret is built with smaller cubes of sandstone. Its interior walls are decorated with stylized landscapes and cypresses. Conservation works were carried out in 1968.

Downloadable documents associated with this site

Author	Title	Year
Zulficar, Saïd.	Alerte aux iconoclastes!	2001
Zulficar, Saïd.	Mosques in the Balkans	2001