Haji Alibey Mosque, Travnik

Paired photogenically with the Sahat Kula (stone clock tower), this two-storey mosque's most immediately distinctive features are the green wooden filigree on its frontage, faded paintwork on the door arch, a metal tipped minaret and two old inscription stones in Arabic.

This four-storey stone clock tower dates from the mid-18th century and is crowned with a wooden topknot, half lost in the branches of an encroaching tree. It sits in an overgrown rose patch beside the Haji Alibey Mosque, facing the regional tourist office across Bosanska and a restored neo-Moorish court building across Vezirska.

However, what makes it is unique in Bosnia is that it retains a sun dial (solar 'clock') on its southwest wall, the corner that juts out into the wooded garden behind. Don't expect too much–it's just a metal spike on a heavily worn inscribed stone.