Bosnia and Herzegovina

The central Sunni mosque of the historic Baščaršija quarter in Sarajevo, following the Hanafi school of law and built in 1531 as a religious endowment (vakuf) of Gazi Husrev-beg. Its main dome measures about 13 meters in diameter and 24.4 to 26 meters in height, with a 45.6-meter minaret and a twelve-sided courtyard ablution fountain (šadrvan). In 1898 it became one of the earliest mosques illuminated by electric light, and in 2004 it was designated a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2004)Sarači, Baščaršija, 71000 Sarajevo (khu phố cổ Stari Grad)

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The mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna (Sarajevo) and the largest Catholic cathedral in Bosnia and Herzegovina, built between 1884 and 1889 on the Ferhadija pedestrian promenade by first Archbishop Josip Stadler and architect Josip Vancas in Neo-Gothic style with Romanesque elements, famed for its twin 43.2-meter bell towers featured on the flag and coat of arms of Sarajevo Canton.

Metropolitan Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna (Sarajevo) and National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (designated in 2005)Trg Fra Grge Martica 2, Stari Grad District, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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The metropolitan cathedral of the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosna and one of the largest Orthodox churches in the Balkans, constructed in central Sarajevo between 1863 and 1868 and consecrated on July 20, 1872 after the design of master builder Andreja Damjanov, uniting five Serbo-Byzantine domes on octagonal drums with a 45-meter gilded Baroque bell tower and an 1873 Russian imperial gilded iconostasis.

Metropolitan Cathedral of the Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosna (Serbian Orthodox Church) and National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (designated in 2006)Zelenih Beretki 1, Stari Grad District, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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An iconic Sufi dervish monastery (tekke) founded around 1520 at the foot of a sheer 200-meter limestone cliff beside the emerald karst spring of the Buna River (Vrelo Bune) near Mostar, rebuilt in Ottoman-Bosnian timber-and-stone style in 1851 by Omer Pasha Latas, housing the sacred Turbe mausoleum of Sari Saltuk and Sheikh Acik Pasha and hosting Bosnia's largest annual Mawlid and Dhikr pilgrimage.

National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Natural and Architectural Ensemble of Blagaj, designated in 2004) and UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List Site (2007, Ref. 5280)Vrelo Bune, Historic Village of Blagaj, City of Mostar, 88201 Blagaj, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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A historic Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos perched on the rocky bank of the Trebisnjica River near Trebinje, rebuilt in 1509 by Metropolitan Visarion I directly atop visible fourth-century Late Antique church foundations, revered as the seventeenth-century monastic home where Saint Basil of Ostrog took his vows and famous for its sixteenth-century stone wine cellars.

Historic Episcopal Seat of the Eparchy of Zahumlje, Herzegovina and the Littoral (Serbian Orthodox Church) and National Monument of Bosnia and HerzegovinaTvrdos Village (right bank of the Trebisnjica River, 4 km west of Trebinje), 89101 Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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