One of the most important symbols of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the city of Sarajevo, bewitching the Vechinitsa library with its architecture, was built in the Andaluz style during the Austro-Hungarian rule.
The library was seriously damaged as a result of a fire that arose after the artillery fire of the Serbian military during the siege of Sarajevo on August 25, 1992.
In a fire that lasted three days, about 2 million works were destroyed, including the national archives of the country, as well as 155 thousand manuscripts.
The library was considered the “memory of the country” and contained about 6 million books and archival documents, including manuscripts and significant works belonging to the Bosnians, Serbs, Croats and Jews.
The Vivechnitsa building, restored a year after the war in 1996, practically rebelled from the ashes on May 9, 2014. After 18 years of reconstruction work, she again opened her doors for the inhabitants of Sarajevo.
Today, the library attracts local and foreign tourists to Sarajevo and remains one of the symbols of the liberation of the city from violence.