Srebrenica town mosques
Srebrenica town mosques

Summary/Abstract: Mosques represent one of the most significant social, historical, cultural and civilizational features of the centuries-long history of the town of Srebrenica. In addition to mining and standing tombstomes, they are one of the longest-lived autochthonous identity traits of its cultural-historical heritage. This is further indicated by the fact that Srebrenica mosques as religious, cultural and educational entities, along with other Srebrenica social-historical and cultural-civilizational entities, continuously for more than five hundred years have been an integral part of the building of multilateral identity of the social-historical reality of Srebrenica, first of all, its multireligious, multiethnic and multicultural features. The first mosque in Srebrenica was the Tvrdavska [Stronghold] Mosque, built, if not in the period 1439-1444, when the Ottomans held Srebrenica under their control for the first time for five years in a row, then definitely in 1462, when the Ottomans finally conquered Srebrenica. The first town mosque was built during the rule of Bayezid II, in the period 1481-1512. If it had been built in the last year of his rule then that would make it half a millennium ‘old’.

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