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Legends of Sarajevo: Turbe of seven brothers

10.05.2016 at 11:17

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There is almost no Sarajevan, who does not know the legend related to Jediler turbe, known as the Seven Brothers turbe, located in the old town, at the bottom of Bistrik. And just because of the legend associated with this tomb, it is visited by many people from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also from the region.

 

Shaykhs fields

A legend says that tomb has the power to predict whether the desires of those who marches to are going to be filled or not.

Turbe was raised by Suleiman Pasha Skopljak, around 1815., but the very place where the seven graves are located has a lot longer history.

In the legend, it is stated that the people saw a strange light above the tomb , and then this place was fenced and a roof was set above it. When the former governor Suleiman Pasha also saw the light , he ordered that the tomb with a window and a lamp over each grave was bulit, and the place looks like that to this day.

After that, a house and a Tekke for Turbedar was made, but it no longer exists.

And who was buried in the Seven Brothers?

Although the name of the tomb suggests so, they are not brothers by blood, but seven innocently executed people who have not even lived in the same time.

The buried was a soldier, who was also a sheikh, in the service of Sultan Mehmed Fatih. According to the legend, Sheikh asked Sultan to demobilize because he was already well advanced in years, and because he liked Sarajevo, he wished that he stays there. Sultan had fulfilled his desire, and for his long service he gave him land, all the way from todays Latin bridge, to Bistrik creek. The people called this land Shaykhs fields, and when the sheikh died, he was buried at the end of his field.

It was the first grave in this place, and today it is the last, viewed from the front door.

 

 

 

Many years later, there two dervishes were buried there, suspected and executed inocent because of the disappearance of money from the cash register Pasini Sarai 1494. As these traveling dervishes were strangers in the city, unknown and poor, the authorities suspected them and they fell guilty for theft. They were convicted and executed, and only a couple of days later in the city came the news that at Čajniča real thieves were caught . The city administration then decided to honor the two men by burying them next to the Sultan's soldiers, because they were s innocent, and they were even declared šehidi.

After nearly 200 years, four captains of Posavina were buried there. At that time, with the award of the aristocracy, begs of Bosanski Brod, Samac, Orasje and Derventa had the task of watching the movements of the Austrian army across the river Sava and notify the military command in Sarajevo.

But they failed to notify the military when the Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1697, crossed the Sava, penetrated all the way to Sarajevo and set it on fire. When things calmed down, begs were invited to Sarajevo to account. They were convicted and executed, although they tried to prove that they could not do anything, since the Savoy crossed Sava at night and in an unexpected place.

Some clerics understood their innocence, and convinced the government that the four Posavina begs were buried next to two previously buried Mazlums (those to whom injustice has been done). And so there was a complex Jedileri, seven brothers by fate, not by blood.

At first, while the tomb has not yet been built, people respected the graves, and visited them spontaneously or purposely , said Fatiha and prayers for the realization of desires and leave the small donations that tomb held. But somehow, at the end of the World War II, or about 1945, the tomb has received a specific significance, though, about the tomb, as well as on many similar legends, there is no precise data.

So, the custom is that a person who has a desire, comes on tomb and at the front door recites Fatiha or another prayer, depending on his religion, and makes a wish. Then through the seven holes in the windows puts the money to each of the brothers adn greets every one of them.

It is important, according to tradition, that in each of the seven windows put in the same amount, and through the opening in the door, you should throw a little more money. The most important thing is not to go back to the same street that you came from, and you should carefully listen to a firs sentence that someone you pass on the street says. If the sentence is positive, then your wish will be fulfilled, and if the sentence heard is negative, then should come the second time, and make a wish again ...

 

 

Fountains of Sarajevo

Strange fountain of Alifakovac

The fountain, which has not changed since 1780,  is kadi Ahmed Efendi Jahijas vahuf, who came from Persia with his wife and two children.

According to the famous writer Evliya Çelebi, in Sarajevo was once a 110 fountains and 300 sebiljs. Water was supplied from 1,660 springs in and around Sarajevo, and most of them were on the left side of the Miljacka, under Trebevic.

One of the only fountains still preserved is in Alifakovac, which was connected to the aqueduct fountain that originated under Jarčedoli.

Water came trough ceramic pipes over Močula, Tričivoda and Čeljigovići, conducted to Alifakovac. It is not known when exactly was the first fountain built , but it is certain that it received the form in what is it today in 1780.

The fountain was waqf of qadi Ahmad Effendi Jahija, who came to Sarajevo from Persia around 1779.

One of his sons fell ill and died in Sarajevo, so kadi buried him in one of the tombs on Alifakovac, and build this fountain in his honor  .

Over the years this fountain was rebuilt several times.

The stone from which water flows, češmetaš, was is built in the shape of a rectangle, and looks like a sculpture.

Water constantly flows from the pipe above which is a decorated in the form of rosettes.

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