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Show OLD MOSQUE LEGENDS. The great Begova mosque in Sera-jevo Sera-jevo is the largest mosque in Europe after those of Constantinople and Se-lim's Se-lim's mosque in Adrianople. In its courtyard stands an old stone, across the top of which there is a groove precisely pre-cisely the length of a Turkish ell. Tradition Tra-dition says that a pasha placed it there to checkmate - the local merchants' habitual use of false measures in defiance defi-ance of the express commandment of the Koran. But another of Serajevo's hundred mosques has a much better legend. Before Be-fore this may be seen the tombs of the seven holy dervishes who were beheaded be-headed 200 years ago for a great theft. After the decapitation each body tucked its head under its arm and walked into the mosque. So those dervishes der-vishes are worshiped as saints to this day. |