Bohoniki Mosque
{{Short description|Mosque in Bohoniki, Podlaskie, Poland}}
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| religious_affiliation = Islam
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| location = Bohoniki, Podlaskie, Poland
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| designation1 = Historic Monument of Poland
| designation1_date = 2012-10-22
| designation1_number = Dz. U. z 2012 r. poz. 1275{{Cite Polish law|title=Rozporządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 22 października 2012 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii "Bohoniki i Kruszyniany - meczety i mizary"|year=2012|number=1275}}
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Bohoniki Mosque ({{langx|pl|Meczet w Bohonikach}}) is a wooden mosque located in the village of Bohoniki, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in northeastern Poland.{{cite web|title=Main Page|url=http://www.bohoniki.info/|website=Bohoniki|accessdate=11 March 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304233108/http://www.bohoniki.info/|archivedate=4 March 2016|df=}}
History
The mosque was built at the turning point of the nineteenth and twentieth-century, most likely in 1873. It was constructed after a fire burnt down a previous Tatar settlers' mosque in its location. The former mosque was located next to a historic cemetery in the eastern part of the village, existing since around the eighteenth-century, or from the seventeenth-century.{{cite book|last1=Antoniak|first1=Grzegorz Rąkowski ; [il. Krystyna|title=Polska egzotyczna : [przewodnik].|date=2005|publisher=Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz"|location=Pruszków|isbn=8389188376|edition=Wyd. 3 aktual.}}
During World War II, the mosque was destroyed by the Wehrmacht, which transformed the building into a field hospital. After 1945, the mosque had undergone numerous small renovations. There were plans for the mosque's expansion, but the conservator did not allow these plans to be put forward.
In 2003, the mosque's roof was renovated; the sheet tin roof was replaced by shingle. In 2005, the mosque had undergone a major refurbishment.{{cite book|last1=Gembicki|first1=[tekst Roman|title=Podlaski szlak tatarski : Bohoniki|date=2006|publisher=Muzułmańska Gmina Wyznaniowa|location=Bohoniki|isbn=8392266528}}
See also
- Islam in Poland
- Kruszyniany Mosque, another Lipka Tatar mosque in Poland
- Raižiai Mosque, Lipka Tatar mosque in Lithuania
- Navahrudak Mosque, Lipka Tatar mosque in Belarus
References
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Category:Lipka Tatars of Poland
Category:Mosques completed in the 1870s
Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1873
Category:19th-century religious buildings and structures in Poland
Category:Buildings and structures in Poland destroyed during World War II
Category:Attacks on religious buildings and structures during World War II
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