Differences in overall circumstances in which Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina developed led to significant diversity, primarily in the tangible culture characteristic for Bosnian and Herzegovinian Muslims.

Cultural history of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina distinctively shows its rich beauty through the living religious tradition of dovištes (Muslim pilgrimage sites), and dates of visiting them are still determined according to the calendar of other religious communities.

Arebica is a specific alphabet created by Bosnia's entry into the Ottoman-Islamic cultural circle.

The mosque is located in the Banja Luka neighborhood Gornji Šeher. It was commissioned by Sofi Mehmed-pasha, the first Bosnian regent seated in u Banja Luka in 1554/1555. In terms of space, it is the largest and in terms of age the second oldest mosque in Banja Luka.

In 2009, in the village of Delimeđe on the Pešter plateau, municipality of Tutin, a mosque with the Islamic center was built, the two minarets of which are 77.5-meter high each, which makes them the highest in the Balkans and Europe, and some of the highest in the world as well.

In our regions, as a segment of much broader Ottoman-Islamic civilizational circle, Islam built on older pre-Islamic traditions of Bosnia (in the broadest sense) and penetrated practically all the pores of local private and public life, of both Muslim and non-Muslim population.

In the Ottoman period, Sarajevo, together with Belgrade and Skopje, had most mosques in the Balkans. It is assumed that at its climax in the 17th century it had about 120 mosques.

Close to ramparts of the old Travnik fortress one can see the Varoška Mosque, a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Old Wooden Mosque in Bužim, built in the first half on the 19th century, is one of the oldest mosques in Cazinska Krajina.

Within bulwarks of the medieval fort in Cazin a mosque was built in 1576, on the site of the present one.

Sajjadas are rugs of small dimensions, 150 cm long and 90-120 cm wide, which served to isolate the worshipper from possible dirt on the ground when performing the basic Islamic ritual, daily prayer, or to mark the direction of qibla on the wall.

Rough floor coverings called gunj, ćebe and biljac were woven on the horizontal looms using simple techniques of flat weaving (in two threads) before Bosnia became part of the Ottoman Empire.

The second stage of making the Bosnian kilim is the kilim woven in the Sarajevo Workshop after 1879 . One cannot say that it was an entirely new type of Bosnian kilim.

Maglaj, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Glamoč, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ottoman baroque.

Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Since the fall of communism, hundreds of mosques have been built or renewed in BiH, and their construction was often accompanied with influence of building traditions which had previously been strange in Bosnian environment.

Recently, at a lecture I gave about Bosnian kilim, I asked students. “What do you associate with the word 'kilim'?” Some of the responses were: tradition, cleanliness, home, grandma, warmth... One response was: neglect.

When Western collectors discovered the Anatolian kilim in the 1970s, they began to consider it as something Oriental, exotic.

The tradition of erecting stone grave-marks in Krajina is almost three millennia old, starting from Japodian urns, through Roman altars and medieval stećaks to different kinds of stone grave-marks related to the Ottoman period.

In the postwar period, many new mosques have been built across the Muftiate of Bihać. Despite their immeasurable significance and function, many of them indicate superficiality in architectural design.

National monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Podgora - Breza, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina

National monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina

National monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gornja Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Mišćina or Kebkebir hadži Ahmed Mosque is located in Sarajevo residential quarter known as Kovači. It was built in the early 16th century (1543-1557.). Above the portal there is a wooden levha with the inscription: “Owner of property and the hastahana (hospital) Kebkebir hadži Ahmed, year 1543, 963 AH”.

Bjelašnica mountain, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bjelašnica mountain, Bosnia and Herzegovina