Bla­gaj Tek­i­ja (also known as Bla­gaj Tekke) dates back near­ly six cen­turies, and was built right on the banks of the green Buna riv­er which makes for a stun­ning con­trast against the building’s white­washed walls. It is believed that the tekia in Bla­gaj was found­ed imme­di­ate­ly after the estab­lish­ment of Ottoman pow­er in Herze­gov­ina, that is, around 1520. It is men­tioned in the trav­el notes of the trav­el writer Evliya Celebiya, who vis­it­ed Bla­gai in 1664. Celebiya writes that the dervish­es in the tekiya have friend­ly and sci­en­tif­ic dis­cus­sions. There are two tombs in the tekia.