The Ali-pasha mosque was built in 1560/61 as the vaqf of the beylerbey of Budim and sanjak-bey of Bosnia Ali-pasha, a native of the Sarajevo plain.

It was built in the classical style of Ottoman architecture and is one of the finest and, certainly, the best proportioned mosques. It belongs to the type of single space domed mosques.

Ali-pasha Mosque, Sarajevo

The Ali-pasha mahala (residential quarter) and, along with its harem (burial ground), occupied a large are until the roadway and tramway were laid, when mahala was demolished and the mosque harem reduced in a size alongside Marshal Tito street and turned into a park area.

Alipasha's Mosque, interior details

The spacious burial ground beside the Ali-pasha mosque contained many tombstones, and is in fact older that the mosque itself, for the founder of the mosque, Ali-pasha, was buried there in 1557.

A separate turbe (mausoleum) contains the bodies of Behdžet, son of Mehemed-bey Mutevelieae, and Abdulah, son of Salih Sumbul, who died in Arad in 1915 and whose mortal remains were brought to Sarajevo and buired in this turbe.

The Ali Pasha Mosque was heavily damaged by Serbian forces during the conflict of the early 1990s, especially the dome.

Ali-pasha Mosque at night

The most recent renovation of the mosque occurred in 2004 and in January 2005, the Commission to Preserve National Monuments issued a decision to add the Ali Pasha Mosque to the list of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ali-pasha Mosque, Sarajevo