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Rebuilding a Bosnian mosque

Architecture News - Sep 05, 2008 - 15:37   8121 views

The recent arrest of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has refocused the world`s attention on Bosnia-Hercegovina. Karadzic played a key role in the war that consumed the former Yugoslav republic in the early 1990s. A striking feature of that conflict was the ethnically-targeted destruction of cultural monuments. In Banja Luka -now the capital of the Serb-run part of Bosnia - Serb forces destroyed all 16 of the city`s mosques. The most famous one - the Ferhadija - is undergoing an ambitious restoration. The World`s Jeb Sharp reports.
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