Aladža džamija

Bosnian Muslims believe of a pre-war total of 1,144 mosques, 614 were destroyed and 307 damaged.They also say that 557 Mesdzids (small mosques), 954 Mektebs (schools for Koranic readers), 15 Tekkes (Dervishes lodges), 90 Turbes (Islamic shrines) and 1,425 other community buildings were destroyed.
Some were priceless cultural and historical monuments whose exact value is hard to estimate.

These include the Ferhat Pasina mosque, known as the Ferhadija mosque, a UNESCO-listed monument built in Banja Luka in 1579 and destroyed in 1993.

Another was the Arnaudija mosque, built in Banja Luka in 1594. This was also on the UNESCO list of protected monuments.

The continued aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina has not only jeopardized the lives of millions of people. It has also caused enormous destruction of many religious objects and buildings of value to the Islamic Community. Deliberate, planned destruction of everything that has been built for centuries in this country, done by contemporary vandals, Serbo-Montenegrin Chetniks and Yugo-army, has caused invaluable damage to the Muslim architectural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the whole Balkans. In this aggression and in this uncivilized campaign, even the most sacred architectural gems of Islamic architecture, Gazi Husrev-Bey mosque, Imperial mosque (Careva dzamija), Magribia mosque in Sarajevo, Imperial mosque in Foca, Sultan Esme mosque in Jajce, Karajoz Bey mosque in Mostar, as well as many others, have not been spared.

Destruction of Islamic architectural structures today is actually a continuation of earlier programs of genocide against Muslims. The "Vasojevic law" from the first half of the 19th century contains a paragraph that legalizes and encourages this practice.

That barbaric tendency is encouraged in the programs of all Serbian nationalistic organizations. Many islamic objects that are now levelled to the ground, were in previous periods of turmoil also damaged. Even prior to current events, a hatred has been exercised against Muslim artifacts and objects. The very memory of 500 years of existence of Islam in this country has been challenged and violently removed. But the hatred of Serbian- Montenegrin aggressor and local Chetniks of Serbian origin has reached bottom in these times. The world has recorded nothing like this. That is confirmed with this list of destroyed and damaged objects of the Islamic Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Unfortunately, this list is not complete and final.

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