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Mosque

Beautiful mosque with many side rooms. Interesting situated in a park, which is being "remediated". In 2012 a high metal minaret was built at the entrance road to this complex.

Turkish mosque from 1999, with small minaret.

The Selimiye Mosque in Bar, the largest building of its kind in Montenegro, was built between 2002 and 2014. The completion of the mosque building, the space of the cultural centre, its furnishing and equipment, during the period 2013 and 2014, were entirely financed by the funds provided by the Turkish government's development agency.

The Selimiye Mosque is a typical Ottoman mosque built between 1568 and 1574 by the architect Mimar Sinan (1489-1588). Even though some of the tiles were defeated by the Russian General Mikhail Skobelev during the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878, the mosque still houses magnificent marble, tiles and calligraphy. The Selimiye Mosque complex has been a World Heritage Site since 2011.

The Selimiye Mosque was founded in the 13th century as a Catholic cathedral, the St. Sophia Cathedral. The cathedral may have been built on the site of a Byzantine church already called Haghia Sophia. After the Crusaders took Cyprus in 1191, the construction of a new sanctuary was commissioned by Alice of Champagne, wife of Hugh I of Cyprus (1205-1218). Construction began in 1208 and its consecration took place in 1326. With the occupation of Nicosia by the Ottomans (1570), St. Sophia Cathedral was transformed into a mosque and two minarets were added to a western part of the building. In 1954, the monument was renamed "Selimye Mosque" in honour of Sultan Selim II (1566-1574) who ruled at the time of the conquest of Cyprus.

Although almost nothing of the fortification has been preserved, the church of Seliștat impresses as an example of an almost unaltered fortified church of the early 16th century. Situated on the top of a hill on the high plateau between the valleys of the river Hărtibaciu and Olt the one-aisle church without tower is said to have been built as early as the second half of the 14th century, probably on the site of an earlier building. Around 1500 the chancel was strengthened by adding buttresses, four more stories, and a wooden battle platform. Later the nave was fitted with a barrel vault and a defence level built of bricks and stones. Loops for pouring liquids were left between the buttresses and the wall of the church. Another defence building serving for storing grains has been preserved on the northern side of the site. On the southern side three more buildings were erected: Old and New School and the communal hall, today used as a youth hostel and community center. The modest interior of the church was renovated in 2010.

The Selje church, inaugurated in 1866, is a project of the architect F. H. Stockfleth. It is built in a relatively simple Gothic-Swiss style, with a gable-shaped window frame and exceptional quality carpentry work on the walls. The church is located on the shore and overlooks the island of Selje to the west.

Seljord Church is a stone church in Romanesque style, built between 1150 and 1180 and restored by the National Heritage Board between 1965 and 1972. The church has an elongated nave and an almost square choir with an apse. The porch to the west dates from around 1630, and the only sculptural decoration in the church is in the corner of the nave to the north-east, representing a man's head with a beard. The church is located on the road to St. Olav.

The Sem church, which was probably built in the 12th century, is a long stone church with a rectangular nave and a shorter, lower and straighter choir. The red turret with its high spire dates from 1956. The south choir portal, which has been redesigned, is decorated with Romanesque stone reliefs in some of the granite stones. The church is dedicated to St. Olav.