BRUSA BEZISTAN
THE BRUSA BEZISTAN

Summary/Abstract: This splendid building, erected in 1551 by Rustem pasha, Grand Vizier to Suleyman the Magnificent, was used to sell the silk that Rustem pasha made in Bursa. It is rectangular in plan, with sides of 29.5 and 20.5 m, and is built of stone, with six main domes and two smaller ones. The substantial piers inside the bezistan, which are structural, are topped by small domes where archive documents and sidžils (court records) were stored. The Brusa bezistan was damaged during the 1992-1995 siege of Sarajevo. Following extensive repair works, it now houses the Sarajevo Museum’s permanent collection entitled “The Development of Sarajevo from Prehistory to the Austro-Hungarian period.”

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