The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Located in Visegrad, Eastern Bosnia, stretching over Drina River, this 11 arches bridge considered a masterpiece of Ottoman architecture, was built in 16th century and was a subject of Ivo Andric’s Nobel Prize-winning book The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini Cuprija) , which described the building [...]
Many of the finest Islamic monuments in Bosnia were systematically destroyed by Serb Nationalists. Asim Zubcevic, a Bosnian Muslim scholar, examines the challenges facing the restoration of the country’s historic sites in changing the spiritual landscape of Bosnia.
This Passover, reproductions of a well-known illuminated manuscript are going on sale — for $1,350 apiece.
The Sarajevo Haggadah should be ready just before Passover, Bosnian Jewish leader Jakob Finci told JTA. “We are printing a limited edition of just 613 copies — the number of the mitzvot.”
In times of conflict, buildings are inevitably damaged or destroyed. But there has always been another war against architecture: the destruction of the built artefacts of a people or nation as a means of cultural cleansing or division. In this war, architecture takes on a totemic quality: a mosque is not simply a mosque but [...]
