LOCATION / AREA
Center
SIGHTSEEING LABEL
Bridge
DISTANCE FROM AIRPORT
7.0km
DISTANCE FROM SARAJEVO BUS STATION
1.3km
Distance from the center
46m
NEAREST PUBLIC TRANSPORT STATION
Tram station Skenderija - 52m
The facility, as well as the entire neighborhood on the left bank of the Miljacka, is named after Skender Pasha, an Ottoman governor of the Bosnian Sanjak, who had a trading center built here in 1499. It contained 11 shops, a caravanserai, a palace//a palatial residence, a soup kitchen and a tekke.
In 1518, his son, Mustafa Bey Skenderpašić, erected the first mosque in BiH to have a cupola. It was built next to his father’s tekke, right where Dom Mladih is located today.
This bridge was badly damaged during the last war, as one of the biggest battles in Sarajevo was fought from here in the spring of 1992.
A thorough reconstruction of the concrete Skenderija Bridge which connects Obala Kulina Bana and Terezija Street was completed in 2014.
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