Prepiska u vezi sa vlasništvom Fethija Džamije u Zvorniku 1879-1915. godine
Correspondence Relating The Ownership Of Fethiya Mosque In Zvornik In The Period 1879-1915

Summary/Abstract: After the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, military garrison was deployed in the town of Zvornik, a strong due to the vicinity of the border, followed by the building of a military hospital. Members of Austro-Hungarian army were mainly catholic, and there was not a single catholic church in the town given that in the Ottoman Era there were no Catholics living there. The Muslim representatives and local authorities of Zvornik gave the premises of the Fethiya Mosque, located nearby a newly built hospital to the Austro-Hungarian soldiers, members of administration and others to use them as their church. The mosque was used for several years as the garrison church with a military priest. When Archbishop Dr Stadler submitted to the Land’s Government his request to appoint a catholic priest in Zvornik, and to turn the Fethiya Mosque, i.e. the garrison church into the parish church, the Muslims of Zvornik opposed that move and demanded from the Government to give them their mosque back. Given that the Fethiya Mosque (a.k.a. the garrison mosque), was an old mosque, and in order to avoid the clash between the Muslims of Zvornik and the Catholics who had moved to this town, in the year 1906, the Land’s Government proclaimed this mosque a historical monument. With the outbreak of the First World War, in 1914, the members of Austro-Hungarian Army based in Zvornik reconstructed the Fethiya Mosque, or else the garrison church, to use it as the storage for medical material.

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