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Visit the yard of the central mosque in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This mosque is rightly seen as the most important architectural monument from the time of Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mosque was built as part of a vakuf (endowment) established by the Ottoman Governor, Gazi Husrev Bey, who governed Bosnia, more or less continuously, from 1521 until his death in 1541. It was the first mosque in the world that had electricity in 1898.