Franciscan friary, Fojnica

[1] This was evident from one particularly important episode in Bosnian history, related to fra Anđeo Zvizdović, who went to the village of Milodraž, where the encampment of the Sultan Mehmed II el Fatih was at the time, where he received the Ahdname of Milodraž from the Sultan grating him a request for the Franciscans to remain in Bosnia, the return of the refugees and the basic rights to life and religious tolerance.

[2] The monastery's museum collections holds the 15th century Ahd-Namah (the Order) of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror guaranteeing security and freedom to the Franciscans.

This document allowed the Franciscans of the day to preach freely among the Catholics in BiH, which in turn enabled the preservation of Bosnian Catholicism through the centuries.

[1] The museum also houses the book of coats of arms, one of the iterations of semi-fictional Illyrian Armorials known as Fojnica Armorial, dated between 1635–1688—depending on researchers—with historical coats of arms of prominent medieval Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian families.

The KONS inscribed the friary into the list of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 22, 2011.

The Firman given to the Bosnian Franciscans