Sherefudin’s White Mosque

Abstract

Visoko lies on the banks of the Fojnica and Bosna rivers. Together with the neighbouring villages, the local community numbers some 45,000 inhabitants. That such a small town can be the home to a mosque of this size — and moreover, such a radically modern mosque -should wonder only those whose view of Europe is limited to the “Christian West” in which the influence of Muslim architecture is to be seen only in the Moorish palaces in southern Spain. In reality the culture of Islam influenced Europe for hundreds of years, not only in the southwest but also in southeastern Europe.