It is located beside Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque and is the tallest of the 21 clock towers erected throughout the country, reaching a height of 30 meters.
[2][3] The Sarajevo Clock Tower was constructed by Gazi Husrev-beg, a governor of the area during the Ottoman period.
[4] The earliest known documented mention of the tower dates to the 17th century in a work by Evliya Çelebi.
It was rebuilt twice, once after fire damage when the city was attacked by Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1697, and again in 1762.
The previous Turkish mechanism was moved to a mosque in the neighbourhood of Vratnik.