MOSQUÉES DE SREBRENICA

Today there are three of them, concentrated in the same area. They replace the previous mosques razed by Bosnian-Serb forces in 1995.

Čaršijska Mosque (Čaršijska Džamija/Чаршијска Џамија). Located in the center, it dates back to 2011. It has the highest minaret, almost 40 m high. Its name indicates that here was the sharia, a commercial and Islamic district that had six mosques, baths, a caravanserai and a tekké in the 17th century. The current building is installed on the site of a wooden mosque erected in 1836 which, very dilapidated, was demolished in 1988. A new mosque was under construction when the war broke out in 1992.

White Mosque (Bijela Džamija/Бијела Џамија). Placed at the entrance to the path leading to the fortress, 100 m from the Čaršijska Mosque, it was built in 2002. It retains the name and the very simple architecture of the mosque that disappeared in 1995, which dated from 1689. This one was erected from materials from the then abandoned Catholic Monastery of St. Mary, which was destroyed in 1686, along with the Fortress Mosque, the first Islamic building in the city founded in 1462.

Đozić Mosque (Đozića Džamija/Ђозића Џамија). You have to climb another 150 m to reach it. Dating from 2015, it takes the Bosnian style of the original mosque (18th century) with a small minaret and a wooden close. The same Đozić family financed the construction of the two buildings three centuries apart.