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Rebuilding war-torn mosque in Bosnia
The 16 mosques of Banja Luka, in Bosnia, were destroyed during the conflict there in the early 1990’s. Now the most famous of those mosques is being rebuilt, using many of the original stones.
The recent arrest of war crimes suspect Radovan Karad�ić has refocused the world’s attention on Bosnia-Hercegovina. Karad�ić 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.