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	Ferhadija mosque - Slider
		Ferhadija was listed as a cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1950 and was subsequently listed with UNESCO as the world cultural monument.
		The mosque was partially demolished by explosives on May 7, 1993 and subsequently razed to the ground by Serb radical nationalists as part of ethnic cleansing campaign of Republika Srpska.
		Ferhadija mosque was one of the 16 mosques destroyed in the city of Banja Luka during the Bosnian War in 1992–1995.
	enc.slider.com /Enc/Ferhadija_mosque (542 words)

	Bosnian Institute News: Islamic sites in Bosnia - ten years on
		Built between 1520 and 1566 during the Ottoman reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, the Atik Mosque in the northeastern town of Bijeljina was utterly destroyed along with the nearby turbe on 13 March 1993.
		New mosques cannot be seen as contributing to the healing of the traumatized Bosnian Muslim community or to the rebuilding of their identity.
		Traditional Bosnian mosque architecture is far from being monotone: from the large domed mosques exuding majesty and quiet confidence of the Ottoman era to some of the eastern Herzegovinian mosques remarkable for their stone roof-tiles and quadrangle minarets, so in tune with the rugged, rocky geography of the region.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2160 (2298 words)

	Ferhadija Mosque
		The Ferhadija Mosque was built in 1583 during the Ottoman empire and was regarded as one of the finest outside the Arab world.
		Ferhadija had been a UNESCO protected monument, but the Orthodox Serbs, who used tones of explosives to flatten it, threw its ancient stones onto a garbage dump and boasted that the site would make an excellent parking lot.
		The destruction of hundreds of mosques in Bosnia was a part of the Serbs' wartime campaign of ``ethnic cleansing'' using terror to force people to flee and leave behind ethnically pure areas.
	fly.cc.fer.hr /~drobic/hp/ferhadija.html (459 words)

	BOSNIA: Banja Luka's Ferhadija Mosque to be Rebuilt First. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Serb nationalists levelled Ferhadija to the ground with a massive explosion on 7 May 1993 in the middle of the 1992-5 Bosnian war, despite the fact that no fighting took place in the town.
		`Ferhadija was a cultural and historical monument of the highest importance and, as such, it will be restored.' He linked the reconstruction to similar projects to rebuild the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Zitomislic near Mostar and the Roman Catholic Church in Derventa.
		The old Ferhadija was built in 1579 by Serbian masons from Dubrovnik and Split, who were executed after the building was completed at the order of Ferhad Pasha, the first Bosnian pasha under Ottoman rule.
	www.starlightsite.co.uk /keston/kns/2001/010409BO.htm (706 words)

	Reporter's Record: Demonstrations in Banja Luka
		The announced ceremony of laying the corner stone for rebuilding of the Ferhadija mosque in Banja Luka was expected like one of the many that have lately taken place in BandH.
		Ferhadija mosque was a cultural monument protected by UNESCO.
		Serb extremists among politicians claimed that Ferhadija was a monument to the occupation and the occupiers of the Serb people.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2001/Demonstrations.html (1078 words)

	Testimony of Mr. Gusic
		On 5 March 1993, at approximately 1:30 p.m., just across from the Ferhadija mosque [in the center of Banja Luka], near the "EX" Inn, whose owner was the criminal Momo Djukic, some Chetniks tried to murder Mehmed Zahirovic, a mufti (official expounder of Islamic religious law).
		The first mosque inside the city of Banja Luka to be destroyed was the Sefer-Beg mosque, devastated on 9 April 1993.
		As we approached the building of our Community [next to the Ferhadija mosque], we saw trucks and bulldozers cleaning up the place where the mosque had been, taking away everything that was left of it to an unknown destination.
	www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/banjaluka/gusic1.html (1583 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Violence at Bosnia mosque ceremony
		All the mosques in Banja Luka were blown up during the Bosnian war, when the city's 20,000 Muslims were forced to flee.
		A first attempt to conduct the ceremony at the 16th century Ferhadija mosque was abandoned last month after one person was killed and 30 injured in anti-Muslim riots.
		All 15 mosques in the town itself and 90 in the surrounding locality were destroyed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/1393921.stm (539 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina
		In Zvornik, the Islamic community and the city continued negotiations over an alternative mosque site, although by the end of the period covered by this report, the negotiations had failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion, and the issue continued to be a source of contention.
		The mosque in Potocari Gornji, near the cemetery for the victims of the Srebrenica massacre, was also being reconstructed.
		Reconstruction of the historic Ferhadija Mosque in Banja Luka had not begun by the end of this reporting period, but the Islamic community had the necessary permits and was collecting money to fund the construction.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51544.htm (5363 words)

	Banja Luka - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		All 16 mosques dating from 15th and 16th century in the city were destroyed in the recent war between 1992 and 1995 by Serb extreme nationalists at the time believed to be supported by the authorities of Republika Srpska as part of their ethnic cleansing campaign.
		Among the destroyed mosques was the Ferhadija mosque protected by UNESCO.
		Recent attempts to reconstruct the Ferhadija mosque resulted in mass riots by Serbian nationalists on May 7, 2001.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Banja_Luka (2541 words)

	Commision to preserve national monuments
		The national monument consists of the Ferhad paša mosque, the Ferhad paša turbe, the Safi-kaduna turbe, the turbe of Ferhad paša's bajraktars (standard bearers), the fountain, the mosque graveyard and surrounding walls, and the portico.
		The Ferhad-paša (Ferhadija) mosque was the central building of the Banja Luka čaršija, and stood close to the Banja Luka Kastel or fort, on a site between the Crkvine (Crkvene) brook and the Vrbas river, in the former Donji Šeher or lower town, on c.p.
		The architectural ensemble of the Ferhad-paša (Ferhadija) mosque consisted of the mosque itself, the mosque courtyard, the graveyard, the fountain, turbes or mausolea, and the surrounding wall with entrance portal.
	www.aneks8komisija.com.ba /main.php?id_struct=50&lang=4&action=view&id=1326 (4330 words)

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		Umicevic said that the mosque, designated a building of historic importance by the UN cultural organisation UNESCO, was a "monument to the cruel Turkish occupation" of Bosnia and would "reawaken memories of the worst days of (Serb) slavery" under the Turkish Ottoman empire.
		Plans to rebuild Banja Luka mosque a "humiliation for Serbs" BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, April 13 (AFP) - The planned re-building of the ancient Ferhadija mosque in Banja Luka, blown up by the Serbs in 1993, would be a "deep humiliation for the Serb people," the town's mayor said Monday.
		Serving a Moslem community in the town that was once 40,000 strong, the mosque was dynamited by the Serbs in the early hours of a May morning in 1993, one year after the start of the Bosnian war, and the site was turned into a car park.
	coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/bosnia/readings/Riedlmayer1.html (754 words)

	MDO - Bosnian Serb mayor stays firm: No mosques - 04/16/1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ferhadija mosque, built in 1579 and a landmark in the northern city of Banja Luka, was blown up by Bosnian Serbs in 1993 and turned into a parking lot.
		Soon after, the city's remaining 16 mosques were blown up -- among the hundreds the Serbs destroyed in the 1992-95 war.
		The destruction of Islamic and Roman Catholic monuments was part of the Serbs' war aim of removing all signs of other ethnic life from the 70 percent of Bosnia they controlled during the country's 1992-95 war.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/1998/04/16/world_nation/wn4.ap (248 words)

	Photos of destroyed cultural sites in Bosnia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ferhadija Mosque, built in 1579, in the center of the northern Bosnian city of Banja Luka before, during and after the war.
		The mosque was destroyed during the night of May 6-7, 1993.
		The rubble of the mosque was removed and buried under tons of garbage to forestall any possibility of reconstruction.
	www.wbur.org /arts/photogallery/bosnia/default.asp?counter=1 (53 words)

	World Press Review - Ferhadija Mosque - Banja Luka, Bosnia, Republika Srpska
		On May 7, 2001, thousands of Serb protesters forced the cancellation of an attempt to lay the cornerstone for rebuilding the Ferhadija mosque in the now heavily Serb city of Banja Luka, Bosnia.
		And that is exactly what the stone throwing, howling, and arson in the Ferhadija courtyard demonstrated: the victory of hate over tolerance, of past over present, of madness over mind, of destruction over construction—a victory of negative principles over reason.
		Prime Minister Ivanic’s foot-dragging [after the violence at the Ferhadija mosque], belatedly asking for the resignation of his interior minister and then delaying his acceptance of the resignation, is evidence that he has yet to establish government accountability or the rule of law.
	www.worldpress.org /1001feature22.htm (475 words)

	0029admmer
		The destruction of the mosques and the removal of remains took place at night during the period when the city was blockaded and a curfew was in force.
		In particular, any request for reconstruction of Ferhadija lodged after the amendment indicated in the extract from the official property map of 6 November 1996 would be rejected as ill-founded, because this document no longer proves the previous existence of that mosque.
		It further appears that in November 1996, shortly after the removal of the remains of the Ferhadija mosque, this mosque was expunged from the official property map of the Municipality.
	wwwuser.gwdg.de /~ujvr/hrch/0000-0999/0029admmer.htm (18525 words)

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		The riots drew condemnations from the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and raised fears that Serb nationalism in Bosnia is unyielding and that the Bosnian-Serb leadership is to blame.
		The rioters pelted Muslim refugees and officials with tear gas grenades, stones and eggs to protest the reconstruction of a medieval mosque, Ferhadija, in Banja Luka.
		The ceremony, to commemorate reconstruction of the 16th-century mosque destroyed in 1993 during the Bosnian war, was also to celebrate the normalization of post-war relations among Muslims and Bosnian Serbs, but instead the event brought tensions to the fore.
	se.uwaterloo.ca /~ijdavis/kosovo/Bosnia-Nationalism.txt (978 words)

	Soul of Europe - Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of 16 Mosques, destroyed in 1993,in Banja Luka is being reconstructed as a sign of Muslim/Christian collaboration.
		The Mosque was the heart of Banja Luka for Muslims, but also for the Orthodox and Catholics.
		The Soul of Europe is establishing a network of Ferhadija Associations across Europe as a sign of collaboration and cooperation.
	www.soulofeurope.org /activities.htm (454 words)

	Bosnian police on alert as first rebuilt mosque inaugurated in Serb town
		The mosque, which was originally built in 1973, was blown up during the conflict in Bosnia between 1992-95 when Orthodox Bosnian Serbs conducted a concerted campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Roman Catholic Croats and the Muslims, driving thousands of them out.
		In May 2001 the Islamic community's efforts to lay a cornerstone for rebuilding the celebrated Ferhadija mosque, also in Banja Luka, ended with anti-Muslim riots that left one person dead and some 30 injured.
		In all 106 mosques were reduced to rubble in RS during the conflict.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/ca/Qbosnia-serbia-mosque.RNxE_DlJ.html (449 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ferhadija mosque
		Ferhat-Pasha Mosque (Bosnian: Ferhat-pašina džamija) or more widely known as Ferhadija Mosque was a central building of the city of Banja Luka and one of the most successful achievements of the Islamic architecture of the 16th century Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		Ferhadija was listed as a cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1950 and was subsequently protected by UNESCO until its destruction in 1993.
		campaign which was proven by ICTY in the Radoslav Brđanin judgement The subsequent demolition was organized by the authorities of the Republika Srpska which included the demolition of the entire Ferhadija complex.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ferhat_Pasha (994 words)

	Islamic Sacred Sites and Places - ReligionFacts
		Al-Azhar in Cairo, Egypt - the mosque university is the foremost school of Sunni Islam
		Ferhadija Mosque in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, destroyed in 1993
		Mosque of Mohammed Ali at the Citadel, Cairo, Egypt
	www.religionfacts.com /islam/places.htm (287 words)

	Schwarz-Schilling elated at a new Muslim mosque in Bosnia \| serbianna.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Schwarz-Schilling elated at a new Muslim mosque in Bosnia
		Bosnian Muslim religious figure Ekrem Camdzic walks with the High Representative to Bosnia, German diplomat Schwarz-Schilling, at the site of Ferhadija mosque during his visit to Banja Luka November 15, 2006.
		Ferhadija mosque was destroyed in 1993 during the Bosnian war.
	www.serbianna.com /photo_2006/0170.html (51 words)

	Mufti's Funeral a Symbol Of the Divided Bosnia
		The other 207 mosques in Serb-controlled Bosnia, of which 16 were in Banja Luka, were either burned to the ground or blown up by the Bosnian Serbs.
		Recently his battle was to obtain permission to rebuild the Ferhadija mosque.
		He was convinced that the reconstruction of the mosque and his presence were a sine qua non for the return of the Muslim refugees to Banja Luka.
	www.iht.com /articles/1998/08/13/edanna.t.php (569 words)

	Ferhadija mosque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The choice of the date, also a date of a very important Serbian Othodox holiday of Saint George, has been critisised.
		Most of the mosques destroyed in Banja Luka in the period of the Bosnian War were reconstructed since 2001, however, the reconstruction process of the Ferhadija mosque is still a very contentious issue.
		Work is further delayed due to the unresolved complexities of its authentic reconstruction, for which preliminary studies have been prepared by the School of Architecture - Design and Research Center in Sarajevo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferhadija_mosque (971 words)

	Bosnian Serb rioters mar mosque ceremony [Free Republic]
		Riots a month ago killed a Muslim man and forced the postponement of the cornerstone ceremony for rebuilding the 16th century Ferhadija mosque, which was destroyed by Serb extremists in 1993 during campaigns to expel local Muslims.
		All 15 mosques in the town itself and 90 in the Banja Luka area were blown up.
		A total of 618 mosques throughout Bosnia were destroyed during the bloody ethnic conflict that left up to 200,000 dead.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b2e0d42349c.htm (781 words)

	List of mosques - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jumeirah Mosque, Dubai, designed based on the medieval Fatimid architectural style, the modern mosque is made entirely of stone.
		Ferhadija mosque in Banja Luka, destroyed in 1993
		Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab in Maicao, Guajira is the largest mosque in South America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_mosques (856 words)

	IFOR : AFSOUTH Transcript of Press Briefing Oct. 19, 1996
		On the subject of the Ferhadija mosque work has been stopped as result of the intervention of the international community and IFOR remains present at the site.
		And defensive in regard to the Ferhadija mosque.
		We received a statement yesterday from the SDA regarding the destruction in Ferhadija, and they said that the building that was taken down was in fact an Islamic school that had been functioning as a humanitarian aid centre.
	www.nato.int /ifor/trans/t961019a.htm (2123 words)

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