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Gazi Husrev Bey's Madrasa

1537 establishments in the Ottoman EmpireBuildings and structures in SarajevoEducation in SarajevoGazi Husrev-beg's endowmentIslam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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JU Gazi Husrev-begova medresa, Sarajevo (Javna ustanova Gazi Husrev-begova medresa u Sarajevu; transl. Public Institution Gazi Husrev-beg Madrasa in Sarajevo) is a high school and college, a madrasa in Arabic, founded on 8 January 1537 CE and built in Sarajevo as Gazi Husrev-beg's second endowment. It was built in the style of the Istanbul madrasas, and was called Kuršumlija because it was covered with a lead roof (lead in Turkish: kurşun).

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Gazi Husrev-begova, Sarajevo MZ "Baščaršija" (Stari Grad Municipality)

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71200 Sarajevo, MZ "Baščaršija" (Stari Grad Municipality)
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