MEMORY OR ANTIMEMORY

(PRESERVING THE MEMORY OF DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS AND THE AFTER WAR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CULTURAL MONUMENTS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)

Abstract

In this article we wish to point to the issue of constructing new buildings in the places where the remains of old buildings have been found, and that in a manner that does not preserve the original plan of the old building, but is rather an entirely new architectural interpretation that bares only the name of the original. We intend to view this phenomenon through some cases of the reconstruction of Islamic sacred architecture that was partially or entirely devastated in the last aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina, but it is none the less reflected upon the entire heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina, sacred as well as profane that was devastated alike. As a paradigm of negative manner of such reconstruction we brought here well known case of the reconstruction of Turhan emin-beig mosque in Ustikolina and Aziziya mosque in Bosanski Šamac, and as a positive approach to the issue we presented the facsimile of the reconstruction of the Ferhadija mosque complex in Banja Luka and the reconstruction of all the mosques in Stolac, that have been completely demolished during the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992-1995.