Gazi-Husrev-beg, half ottoman-half bosnian, was a sanjak-bey (benefactor of the Ottoman empire) and dominated Sarajevo for about 20 years during the 16th century. He made an impact that lasts until today. Old town Sarajevo is filled with mosques and stone low buildings, most of them were build under Gazi-Husrev administration.
from Gazi-Husrev Madrasa
local crafts and coffee (tourists trap)
old town sarajevo
interior of Gazi-husrev mosque Jews arrived to Sarajevo after the Alhambra Decree (AKA expulsion from Spain in 1492). The Pasha at that time allowed the Jews to live peacefully and to form a community integrated within the ottoman empire, along side Muslims as equals, and not isolated or locked.
Josip Vancaš, the Architect of the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Sarajevo, thought of the Notre-Dame Cathedral when designing the cathedral in Sarajevo. The Cathedral was finished and presented to the bishop of Dubrovnik on 1889.
Architecture seems now as a manifestation of ideology and culture.
They come and conquer the territory using violence, and force their ideology; build their temples.
Those temples, have similar attributes: the podium for the preacher, the high ceiling to cultivate fear, and tales of super-natural experiences represented in words or pictures - all designed to promote willingness to obey one concrete system with an abstract idea of - GOD.
Lunar Muslim year calculator (From the Gazi-Husrev madrassa) But when it comes to real every day life, to time management, we need something consistent and apparent to rely on. Not just a dream or an abstract idea like GOD, but a system based on observations and accurate calculations.
Click to original link - courtesy of JTA Did you know? The Jewish and Muslim new year are occurring at the same time, meaning – now. But of course, these are two sister-cultures that emerged in the same region of the globe, both calculate the times while glancing at the moon.
GOD, has nothing to do with it.
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://thisisjourney24.com/2018/09/09/the-truth-about-temples-and-time-management/