
The Hadum Mosque Complex
Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 17:47
The town’s name is Gjakova in Albanian, Djakovica (or Dakovica) in Serbian. The Old Bazaar area that surrounds the mosque is at +42° 22’ 46.00”, +20° 25’ 37.20”
On Google Earth, you should be able to see the Hadum mosque, with its dome and minaret(now restored), just south of that point. The domed Islamic library building that adjoined the mosque is now gone. The Quran school has been rebuilt from the ground up and is the small tile-roofed building inside the courtyard, just north of the minaret. The streets of the Old Bazaar flank the mosque complex and converge to a point just north of it. The mosque was built in 1594 CE (1001 AH), the adjacent Islamic library building dates from 1733. The rows of traditional shops along the bazaar streets date from the 18th-19th c. and had been restored during the Tito era (1970s). All were listed monuments, protected under Yugoslav legislation.
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