SHARIA MOSQUE
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Marking the entrance to the old Ottoman city, this mosque (Xhamia e Çarshisë, Čaršijska džamija) is the oldest in Pristina. It was built from 1389 on the order of Sultan Bayezid, just after the battle of Kosovo Polje that took place northwest of Pristina. Several times modified over the centuries, its architecture corresponds to the standard plan of small Ottoman mosques: a cube for the prayer room topped by a dome, a porch at the entrance and a minaret. The latter, made of stone, has survived for six centuries. This earns the mosque the Turkish name of Taş cami ( "stone mosque"). However, it is more often called the "sharia mosque". It was indeed in the center of the sharia(çarşı in Turkish, derived from the Persian chaharsu meaning "crossroads"), the typical Muslim neighborhood in the Balkans during the Ottoman period. Often translated by the rough term "bazaar," the sharia certainly included a market, but also fountains, baths, one or more caravanserais for merchants, a madrassa (religious school), etc. But all this has disappeared. Around 1460, the Imperial Mosque became the new center of the Ottoman city with its own sharia. And during the socialist period, the construction of the expressway, now called Agim Ramadani, led to the destruction of what was left of Pristina's first sharia. Only an ablution fountain (late 17th-early 18th century) remains, located next to the Museum of Kosovo.
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