The Travnik mosque regains color, 29 years after the Srebrenica genocide

It stands proudly again in Travnik, in the heart of the historic capital of Bosnia's governors, the Sulejmanija mosque has regained its former glory, from the 19th century.

Reborn from the darkness into which the terrible war in Bosnia-Herzegovina had plunged it, the famous “colored mosque” is adorned with beautiful colors, twenty-nine years after the Srebrenica genocide (July 1995) and the return of the hydra of barbarism in Europe.

Twenty-nine years after the abominable massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, considered the “ worst massacre committed on European soil » since the Second World War, and after miraculously surviving a veritable architectural genocide, the Sulejmanija mosque, named in homage to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, shines with new brilliance.

Renowned for its sumptuous Ottoman-style frescoes and ornaments, the iconic Travnik Mosque is the only one in Bosnia to be flanked by a minaret on its left wing.

Its rich past, engraved in stone and memories, and its flamboyant colors were revived, under the amazed gaze of its many faithful and, particularly moved, of eight high religious dignitaries: the Muftis of Sarajevo, Bihać, Travnik, Tuzla, Gorasde, Zenica, Mostar and Banja Luka.