Travnik, 1866 – YU Sundials

Travnik (BIH), Haji Ali-bey Mosque, probably 1866

(44° 13′ 34″ N, 17° 39′ 36″ E)

Fig. 1. The Haji Ali-bey Mosque, the southwest view (the sundial is on the right side of the wall)

Fig. 2. The sundial in 2008, and the same sundial in 2015: it is disappearing

*Figure 3*. The sundial after the restoration carried out in 2018 at the National Museum in Sarajevo (photo: Željko Kocaj, 2021).

Figure 4. Summer Solstice 2022, local apparent solar noon.

*Figure 5*. The big storm that hit Travnik on July 19, 2023 broke a 150-year-old beech tree that grew next to the Clock Tower. On October 7, the remaining beech tree was removed along with the birch tree that bent towards the street. The crowns of those trees no longer obscure the sundial so that it is now illuminated all afternoon.

*Figure 6*. After several decades of silence, the sundial is now full time ☺️. (Photo taken on October 12, 2023 at solar noon.)

*Figure 7*. New Year’s City Lights, which were installed at the end of December 2023 by the Travnik Regional Museum with the message: – *Be like a sundial, that you record and manifest only the bright hours*.

References

https://www.academia.edu/91625903/Gnomonica_alaturca

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367271379_Uporedni_prikaz_dva_jedina_suncana_sata_na_damijama_u_Bosni_i_Hercegovini

Сунчани сат Хаџи Али-бегове џамије у Травнику — Википедија

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*Figure 7.* Detail from the promotion of the book “Alaturka sundial of the Hadži Ali-beg mosque in Travni”k held on October 12, 2023 at the Memorial Museum “Birthplace of Ivo Andrić” (photo. Mirsad Mujanović).

Tadić, M. (2022). Gnomonika alaturka: sunčani satovi Hadži Ali-begove džamije u Travniku i Hadži Memijine džamije u Mostaru. Beograd: Astronomsko društvo „Ruđer Bošković”.

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