About Waqf

The most glorious period in the history of Sarajevo, under Ottoman administration, was during the time Ghazi Husrev-bey held court while performing his duty as the Bosnian Sanjak-bey (1521-1541). With the exception of the military campaigns he had undertaken, Ghazi Husrev-bey devoted his entire life to the building and urbanisation of Sarajevo. Filled with noble love for the common good and progress of the people he was entrusted with, and from whom he descended, he unselfishly sacrificed his enormous wealth on building of magnificent structures for various purposes, which transformed Sarajevo of that period into the largest trading, craft, cultural, educational and military centre at the crossroads of East and West. With his architectural undertakings Ghazi Husrev-bey achieved lasting merit for the development of the city of Sarajevo, the cultural progress of the Muslims and the development of material culture of all inhabitants of these parts.

Knowing that his merits on the battlefield could only be preserved by history and that the only lasting hajrat (good deed) is that which repeats itself in the future, Husrev-bey endowed all his immovable and movable property.