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Description
Property Name: Tabačka mosque
Inventory No: 387-33-4
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2008-05-30
Country (State party): Bosnia and Herzegovina
Province: Sarajevo Canton
Town: Visoko
Geographic coordinates: 43° 59′ 28.65″ N
18° 10′ 30.56″ E
Historic Period: Early Ottoman (1299-1453)
Year of Construction:
Style: Early Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
The Tabačka mosque belongs to the type of single-space mosque with sofas and wooden minaret.
Selection Criteria
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
The building has been rebuilt several times following the major floods and fires that devastated Visoko. The most recent great flood was in 1870, when the river Fojnica swept away the mosque and the tannery alongside it, following which the mosque was rebuilt in its present form. There is no information about who conducted the minor interventions that are visible, nor when they were done. In the portico of the mosque part of the area was turned in an abdesthana (premises for ritual ablutions) with a built in trough and running water. The minaret balcony (šerefe) of the minaret was repaired in 1961. All these interventions were carried out without the supervision of the heritage protection authority. Following the 1992-1995 war in BiH, when the building was badly damaged, primary repair works were carried out on the roof structure and the south-east wall, which took a direct hit from an artillery projectile.
References
The architectural ensemble of the Tabačka (Tabačica) mosque in Visoko; Commission to Preserve National Monuments, Sarajevo 2003.