Images of Renewal: Reconstruction and Shrines in Stolac, 2002 Update
The Careva (carsijska) Mosque

Images of Renewal: Reconstruction and Shrines in Stolac, 2002 Update
The Careva (carsijska) Mosque

All Photos by Amra Hazdimuhamedovic

 

Reconstruction of the minaret from the fragments
(click on thumbnails for larger image)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Raise High the Roof Beams:

carving beams and minaret capital, traditional gifts for carpenters after the roof raising, hand-made nails

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bringing Back the Design:
paving stones are carefully numbered, stones recovered after destruction are gathered for reconstruction,
and traditional 6-point star beams out from attempted obliteration

 

 


Grave of Rav Moshe Danon (photos courtesy of Amra Hadzimuhamedovic)

 

Historic photos of pilgrimages to the shrine of Rav Danon in Stolac in the 1920's (photo on left) and 1930's (on right). Click below for the images, with invaluable portraits of the Jewish community in BiH between the two World Wars:
Pilgrimages

Permission to use these photos was generously given by Stephen Schwartz

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