Construction of Islamic religious structures, in the region of Tuzla county in the early 60‘s of the 20th century

Abstract

UDK: 726.2(497.6 Tuzla)

In the first part of this article, the author draws our attention to the formal-legal framework that regulated the construction of religious and waqf structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Second World War. Analyzing the archive of the Commission for regulating religious issues for the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the author draws an insight into the efforts made by various bodies of the Islamic Community during the rule of the socialist government, a political system not supportive of religious communities, to renew the old and construct new structures for religious structures in the region of Tuzla county in early 60’s of the 20^th century. The author here presents an example of entire complexity of bureaucratic apparatus of the socialist government in the process of attaining the permits for reconstruction of three mosques namely in: Brezovo Polje, Janja and Gornji Srebrenik, and also the struggle of some lower bodies of the Islamic Community who managed, despite many years of being denied construction permit by the government, to finalize their projects and construct mosques.