The Begova Moschee — Gazi Husrev-beg's Mosque, the largest and most architecturally significant Ottoman mosque in the Balkans — viewed from across the rooftops of Baščaršija, Sarajevo's old bazaar quarter, its central dome, three smaller subsidiary domes, and slender minaret rising 47 meters into the sky. Built in 1531 under the patronage of Gazi Husrev-beg, the Ottoman governor of Bosnia and grandson of Sultan Bayezid II, the mosque was designed by the Persian architect Acem Ali Tabrizi in the classical Ottoman style and was the first mosque in the world to receive electric illumination, in 1898 — during the very period when this postcard was made. Sarajevo in this era was a city of two worlds: the Ottoman Baščaršija with its mosques, hans, and craft bazaars pressed against the Austro-Hungarian boulevard and administration buildings that the Habsburg occupiers had built since 1878. Published by Albert Thier of Sarajevo, No. 8909. Never mailed.

• Caption: Sarajevo — Begova-Moschee.
• Card no.: 8909 (publisher) / 201824 (print)
• Publisher: Verlag von Albert Thier, Sarajevo
• Status: Unposted