MOSQUÉES DE SREBRENICA

Now numbering three, they are concentrated in the same perimeter, near the road leading up to the Guber springs. They replace the mosques razed to the ground by Bosnian-Serb forces in 1995. Located on a crossroads in the town center, the Čaršijska mosque (Čaršijska Džamija/Чаршијска Џамија) dates from 2011. It has the tallest minaret (39 m high). Its name indicates that here was the charchia, a commercial and Islamic district that included six mosques, baths, a caravanserai and a tekké in the ^17th century. The current building stands on the site of a wooden mosque erected in 1836, which was demolished in 1988 after falling into disrepair. A new mosque was under construction when war broke out in 1992. The White Mosque (Bijela Džamija/Бијела Џамија) stands at the entrance to the path leading to the fortress, 100 m from the Čaršijska mosque. Built in 2002, it retains the name and simple architecture of the 1689 mosque. The latter was erected using materials from the Catholic monastery of St. Mary, then abandoned and destroyed in 1686, at the same time as the fortress mosque, which was Srebrenica's first Islamic place of worship in 1462. Finally, the Đozić mosque (Đozića Džamija/Ђозића Џамија) stands on the road to the springs. Dating from 2015, it takes on the Bosnian style of the original mosque (^18th century) with a small minaret and wooden close. The same Đozić family financed the construction of the two buildings three centuries apart.