Clock Tower

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Mudželeti veliki, Sarajevo 71000
Added by Jopie, at 18 April 2016

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• Zaim Prosic

  25 March 2018

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• Loomerka Aaa

  23 January 2018

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• Aleksandar Lakić

  31 December 2017

  Sarajevo’s clock tower is 30 meters high and it is believed that it was built in the 16th century.
  
  The tower's clock is the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time (“à la Turk”), to indicate the times for the daily prayers. According to this system, the new day begins at sunset, when the time is shown as 12:00!
  
  Since the length of the days change throughout the year, it was the duty of a muvekit (timekeeper) to maintain the clock’s accuracy. In the courtyard of Bey’s Mosque there is one kind of observatory, a muvekithana, which is where the exact time would be calculated with the help of careful techniques and sensitive instruments.
  
  The tower's current clock mechanism was brought from London in 1875 by Sarajevan merchants, Hašimaga Glođo and Mehaga Kapetanović. A famous watchmaker and former muvekit from Sarajevo, Abdulah Kasumagić, gilded the hands and numbers on all four of the clock faces.

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• Fahrudin Smailovic

  23 December 2017

  The only lunar clock tower in the world.

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• Alma Colic

  04 March 2017

  Don't miss this.

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• Durim Ukmata

  28 October 2016

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• Mirko

  18 October 2016

  Nice Town.

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• Petar Djakovic

  09 October 2016

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• Mac Mirza

  25 April 2016

  Nice old tower clock.

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