Is a settlement in the municipality of Stari Grad in Sarajevo, which also is a street name (Veliki i Mali Alifakovac) and the name of the cemetery.

On Alifakovac above Šeher-ćehaja bridge there is Great, and one of the most beautiful old cemeteries of Sarajevo. When you climb to the top of the street Veliki Alifakovac you will see big plateau, around which is a cemetery intersected by roads that leading to: Babić Bašta, Goat Bridge, Čeljigovići, Magodi-Megara, Mali and Veliki Alifakovac.

The turbens of Jahjaefendić and Jusuf-pasa Ćuprilić at the Alifakovac cemetery,

In the center of the cemetry, on its most prominent point, there are two small stone-built turbes (tombstones), standing on four poles. Around them snow white tombstones of different shapes and sizes are scattered on the green grass covered with tall trees. One old fountain completes the picture.

We must say that the importance of the necropolis at Alifakovac lies not only in its architecture beautyness, it is perhaps more important from the standpoint of history.

Over three hundred tombstones, of which more than two hundred with epitaphs (inscriptions), provide interesting data about the history of Sarajevo and are a real stone archive.

Today, we are able to complete our previous knowledge about the history of this necropolis with the latest findings. In fact, when arranging the cemetery, a headstone was found in the ground, from which one side is carved arm, bended at the elbow, with six outstretched fingers. Above the fingers is the Moon, which a hand is trying to retrieve. On one narrow side is the sword with the hemisphere. Next to this headstone is another one with a zig-zag lines on its slope side. 
These are the elements that tell us that the cemetery on Alifakovac was bulit during the XV century. Tombstones with inscriptions in a poem or prose, using different variants of the Arabic script, provide us plenty of information about poets, scholars, philanthropists and guilders of Old Sarajevo. 
Cemetery on Alifakovac is also known as Musafirsko cemetery, where they burried the passengers who died in Sarajevo (Musafir = passenger, traveler). 

STREETS OF ALIFAKOVAC

Alifakovac Street is on the left side of river Miljacka, in the eastern part of town. It starts from the Šeher-Ćehaja's bridge by the City Hall, and lead to the east across the aforementioned settlement Alifakovac, then under the tomb to where it meets the street Podcarina. Part of town where this street is located is known as Alifakovac; it includes a number of local streets and has a significant history, today also a tourist value. According to etymology, the name was created by Ali Ufak ("Ali the Low"), the legendary Sheikh from an earlier history of Sarajevo, who is buried on the cemetery of Alifakovac.

Alifakovac Street

However, according to the paths of science, that etymology is not correct for one simple reason - in Turkish names there an adjective could not be after the noun. Really, this area is named after Ali-Fakih, who was lawyer and scholar in Sarajevo in the second half of the 15th century. He was listed as a witness at the Gazi Isa-Bey's Charter in 1462.

The oldest known name of main street in Alifakovac was Carina (the Customs). This name is recorded in the first map of the city in 1882, but actually it is used much earlier, because in that street was the Customs for the goods from East. Around 1885th, the street has got a new name - Veliki Alifakovac. This name was in use untill 1931, when it is changed into Stojan Protic's Street. Stojan Protic (1857-1923) was Serbian politician and statesmen, the author of the response to the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum right before World War I in 1914.

During the occupation 1941st-1945th the street is again called Veliki Alifakovac, and on 6th April 1946, the Day of liberation of Sarajevo, name was changed in memory of Vladimir (Vlada) Gaćinović, Bosnian politician, revolutionary and writer (born in 1890. in Kačanj, died in 1917. in Freiburg, Switzerland). He was also one of the organizers, leaders and ideologists of young Bosnia. After 1996. the street has got its old name back - Veliki Alifakovac, which remains until today. There are many important streets in the Alifakovac settlement: Podcarina, Braće Morića, Toplik etc.