The Clock Tower Skopje had a post earlier but had too little of my photos watch repair atlanta ...

The Clock Tower Skopje had a post earlier but had too little of my photos watch repair atlanta ... I waited a nice day yesterday as one of the series to make my photos ... In the same yard is the oldest mosque in Skopje - famous Sultan Murad Mosque ... built in 1436 as a memorial of Sultan Murat II (ruled from 1421 to 1451), father of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror and therefore it is the people referred to as Hjunkjar or royal or Sultan watch repair atlanta Mosque.
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Clock Tower - Skopje ... Clock Tower - Skopje ... Sultan Murat (Hjunkjar) mosque ... - undoubtedly the oldest existing mosque in the Balkans was built in 1436 as a memorial of Sultan Murat II (ruled from 1421 to 1451), father of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror and therefore it is the people referred to as Hjunkjar or royal or Sultan Mosque. - This mosque was built on the foundations of the former Christian center of Skopje, the monastery watch repair atlanta of St. George Gorgos (Skoropostizhnik) on top of the Virgin Hill, which rises east of the flea market. - Sultan Murat mosque in its long history twice was the target of fire: first in 1537 when burned its upper part and the minaret at the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566) restored. The mosque suffered in the great fire of 1689 that he set Austrian commander Piccolomini. After 23-year break, that in 1712 it was renovated again, this time on the orders of Sultan Ahmed III. The last significant amendments to the mosque were carried out in 1912. Because of these numerous amendments, not known her original appearance. watch repair atlanta But considering the other two mosques - zaduzhbini Sultan Murat II - built in Bursa and Izmir, can assume that this our - Skopje Hjunkjar mosque - was similar to them. - Sultan Murat mosque is built of stone and brick in brusanski style (XIII - XV century). Her inner square space has the shape of a three-nave basilica with flat tabanici. Is divided by three, placed in two rows columns, which are connected by semi-circular arches. watch repair atlanta Mosque, which is covered with tiles, roof has four leads. - On the northwest side of the mosque was built porch, whose roof structure rests on four pillars, capitals decorated with plastic, connected with five arcades that have pointed arches. As its main builder watch repair atlanta mentioned master Hussein Debar. - Sultan Murat mosque during a devastating earthquake in 1963 suffered serious damages that were later bailed. - In the courtyard of the mosque are two turbo: Bikij Khan and Ali Pasha of Dagestan, and the famous Clock Tower Skopje, forming with them a single watch repair atlanta complex. ... Clock Tower - Located in the northern part of the yard Hjunkjar mosque. - This building, which Evliya Çelebi watch repair atlanta travelers and Haji Builder describe in their article as hexagonal building watch repair atlanta whose upper part was built from wooden structure, was built in the middle of the XVI century, particularly in the period between 1566 and 1572. Haji Builder noticed that Skopje has a clock tower greatest of all clock towers of Christians, and that she otchukuvala CAAT and day and night, and Zvone and listening to two hours far. - French traveler Philip Difren-Canet, however, in 1573 wrote that in Skopje has a public clock is heard throughout the city and that otchukuval classes French way. - According to current knowledge, it is the first clock tower erected on the territory of the then Turkish Empire. It should be noted that its lower or built part was specially built, just for this purpose was used as one of the four towers in the composition of the walls that protected the monastery of St. George Skoropostizhnik. Her saaaten mechanism was adopted by Hungary, after winning the city Siegel by the Turks. - And this facility, and Hjunkjar mosque suffered enormous damage during the great fire of 1689. But it is interesting that the old monastery tower and upgrade the wooden clock lived until 1904 when the clock tower at the time of valijata Hafiz Pasha, got the current view: wooden construction was finally replaced with bricks and was installed a new clock mechanism odbrojuval the time "but pushed." - In 1963 during the devastating earthquake Clock Tower suffers serious damage. Later it was renovated, but to this day without a clock mechanism that was lost during the earthquake. ... Soon after, a quick foundation of the former Christian Center Skopje - Gorgos monastery of St. George, the famous Virgin Reid begins construction of the largest and most beautiful mosque in the Balkans, the famous Sultan watch repair atlanta Murat (Hjunkjar) mosque, whose construction will be completed in 1436. Almost two years podecna - in 1438, the territory of the former Manali