Priština

The capital of Kosmet, seriously touched by the war 1998-1999. it has still conserved its oriental character with its little white houses up above if which there fuse the minarets of its mosques. The clock tower erected in the XIX century and the ancient Turkish hammam should be seen.

THE IMPERIAL MOSQUE. Known under the name of Mehmet Fatiha, the sultan who had it constructed, the Imperial Mosque is the greatest mosque in the centre of the town. The inscription above the entrance door indicated that the mosque had been constructed on the year 865 of Hidjar, that is 1461 of our era. That is to say that the imperial mosque had been constructed 8 years after the fall of Constantinople in the moment when the elements of the mosque Aya Sofia of the new Istanbul have been copied a little throughout the Muslim world. There is here what the ottoman architecture of the type of Bursa characteristic of the Muslim constructions in Serbia is giving: a building of one story overhung by a dome. The imperial mosque of Pristina is representative enough of the Islamic architecture of the beginning of the medieval period: the solid and refined proportions at the same time poverty of the inside as well as the outside decoration, a dome of 13.5 m. diameter, a decorated minaret and a design with three domes. The simplicity of the lines and the decorations imposed by the Muslim canons had led to the conception of beautiful windows and the embellishment of mirhab as well as all inside elements.

Accomodation

HOTEL GRAND, Vidovdanska bb, Phone: (038) 20 211. The great hotel in the centre of the town.