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Article: Second casualty of war: historic architectural sites: Saudi aid agencies, among others, have begun renovating and tearing down mosques, historic sites.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 25, 2001
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Byline: Peter Ford Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
PEJE, KOSOVO -- Off a dusty sidestreet in this historic town in western Kosovo, the venerable stone domes of a 16th-century Turkish bathhouse rise with time-weathered grace above a weedy courtyard.
Burned by Serb paramilitaries during the war two years ago, the baths are closed, awaiting restoration.
Across the street stands the Bathhouse Mosque, which was also burned. Today, though, it boasts a suburban-style glassed-in veranda, lemon yellow walls, and a sterile whitewashed prayer room. Nothing about its appearance hints that the mosque, too, was built 400 years ago by the ...