2024

MAUSOLÉE DE SINAN ÇELEBI

Shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit

Curiously isolated on a block of stone, this Islamic mausoleum (Турбе Синан Челеби/Turbo Sinan Čelebi) is the only witness to five centuries of Ottoman presence on Plaošnik Hill. In the center of a small group of roofless arcades is the sarcophagus of Sinan Yusuf Çelebi, buried here in 1493. He was a prominent member of the powerful Turkish Ohrizade family and was responsible for several monuments in the lower town in the 15th century which have now disappeared. It is also him who transformed the Saint-Panteleimon church into a mosque.

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