Mostar

1 July 2004. Bakir Rahmonvic Mostar Restores Its Ancient Bridge

August 2003. Vesna Peric Zimonjic Marcus Tanner
The Old Bridge of Mostar Rises from Ruins

Also Militant Bishop of Mostar, Ratko Peric, Boycotts Bridge Celebration Bosnia Report (London) N.S. no. 41, Aug.-Sept. 2004.

Philadelphia Inquirer on Pasic, Harrington, Bing (July 18, 2004)

HERITAGE CONSERVATION NETWORK
September 2004 Volume 2, Number 5
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MOSTAR BRIDGE COMPLETE

Ceremonies on July 24, 2004 celebrated the inauguration of the Mostar Bridge almost eleven years after its destruction in the war in the Former Yugoslavia. The bridge over the Neretva River separates the mainly Muslim and mainly Croat sides of Mostar, the largest city in Herzegovina. UNESCO and the World Bank led the $15 million reconstruction project to reconstruct the bridge, with financial assistance from the governments of France, Turkey, Italy, the Netherlands and Croatia. The original bridge was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent about 500 years ago, when Bosnia was part of the Ottoman Empire. In a
painstaking reconstruction, Turkish engineers and other experts, working with white marble from the nearby quarry that supplied the original stone, used both historic techniques and new technology to build an exact replica of the bridge. For information on the project, see the World Bank's Project Summary page.



part of a chronological listing of European Bank for Reconstruction &
Development SE European endeavors:

WORLD MONUMENTS FUND AND AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE CELEBRATE
REVITALIZATION OF HISTORIC MOSTAR

"Bridge Opens But Mostar Remains a Divided City"

Summer 2004 articles on Mostar Bridge Restoration

Hum Hill and Mosque Construction, a Rather Unusual Perspective

Article on "Third Offensive" of Young Muslims targets Smajkic

Stari Most August 9, 2003 by Vesna Pesic Zimonjic and Marcus Tanner, The Independent

Damaged or destroyed Islamic objects in Mostar

"Why do we feel more pain looking at the image of the destroyed bridge (in Mostar) than the image of the massacred people?" asked Croatian journalist Slavenka Drakulic in May of 1994. "Perhaps because we see our own mortality in the collapse of the bridge... We expect people to die; we count on our own lives to end. The destruction of a monument to civilization is something else. The bridge, in all it's beauty and grace was built to outlive us. It was an attempt to grasp eternity. It transcended our individual destiny."

Baba Besirova Mosque
Dervis Pasa Bejazidagica Mosque
Hadzi Balina Mosque
Hadzi Kurtova Mosque
Hadzi Ahmet Aga Lakisica Mosque
Hadzi Memije Cernice Mosque
Hadzi Jahja Mosque
Karadjozbegova Mosque

Karadjozbegova Medresa
Cejvan Cehaja Mosque
Cejvan Cehajin Mekteb (Museum)
Koski Mehmet Pasina Mosque
Koski Mehmet Pasina Medresa
Koski Mehmet Pasa Sadrvan
Kotlina Mosque
Kjose Jahja Mosque
Ahmeta Curcije Mosque
Hadzi Lafina Mosque

Nasuh-age Vucijakovica Mosque
Ibrahim-age Sarica osque
Sevri Hasan Mosque
Yavuz Sultan. Selimov Mesdzid
Stari Most (Old Bridge) designed by Hajrudin
Kujundziluk Carsija

Clock Tower
Bridge above the Radobolja River
Roznamedzi Ibrahim Ef. Mosque
Musala with surrounding buildings
Imam's headquarters
Biscevica street with several houses
Bjelusine dwelling complex


  • Click here for Further Classic Images of the Mostar bridge and a Church destroyed in the "Ethnic Cleansing."

  • You can also read International Crisis Group Report from Mostar dating February 13, 1997., which followed the outburst of the Croatian nationlist violence toward the Mostar Muslim civilians.

  • For an account of the rebuilding of Mostar, see the excellent Transitions report at Mostar Transitions.

    Updated 6 March 2004

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