Log pod Mangartom Mosque, Military mosque in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia
The Log pod Mangartom Mosque was a building with white stone walls, a domed roof, and a square minaret in the Herzegovinian style, located in what is now northwestern Slovenia. It stood next to a military cemetery, part of which still exists on the site.
Bosnian Muslim soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army built this mosque in 1916 to serve troops fighting on the Isonzo Front. After the war, the territory passed to Italy, and the building was torn down in the 1920s.
The mosque gave Bosnian Muslim soldiers a place to pray while far from home, in the middle of a war zone. The cemetery nearby still has gravestones with Arabic inscriptions, making the Muslim identity of the site visible to visitors today.
The building no longer stands, but the adjacent cemetery is still accessible and worth visiting. The site is in a mountain valley, so sturdy footwear is a good idea, especially in wet or cold weather.
Only six photographs taken by local residents before the demolition show what the mosque looked like. These images are the only visual record of a place of worship that stood on this remote mountain front during World War I.
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