Franciscan friary, Fojnica

Franciscan monastery of the Holy Spirit is a Bosnian Franciscan monastery in Fojnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1668 and it includes a library of ca. 12,500 volumes, including 13 incunabula and 156 works written in Bosnian Cyrillic.[1] It is a designated National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2] It is part of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena.

Fojnica
Monastery information
OrderFranciscan
Established1668
Dedicated toHoly Spirit
DioceseRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna
Site
LocationFojnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Firman given to the Bosnian Franciscans

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.

The museum also houses the Book of Coats of Arms, dating from 1304 -- probably one of the oldest books in the region -- with historical coats of arms of some Balkan countries and of then-prominent Bosnian families. A rare numismatic collection is also on exhibit.

Most of the works are philosophical and theological, printed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The library's archive preserves more than 3,000 documents from the Ottoman Empire, with 13 of them dating back to 1481.

See also

References
  1. "BOSNIAN MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS" (DOC). Bosnia.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  2. "Federalno Ministarstvo Prostornog Uređenja - Potpisani ugovori za sufinansiranje projekata zaštite i rekonstrukcije nacionalnih spomenika". Fmpu.gov.ba. 2006-05-01. Retrieved 2015-11-24.

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