Still in Vojvodina, though in a different corner: In the northern city of Subotica the region's first mosque has been built with funds from Novi Pazar (the opposite corner of the country) and Turkey. According to B92, the city's Catholic Bishop Ivan Penzeša "also assisted the project". On the newsworthiness of this event, "Jovan R." insists (in the B92-Forum) that this development (mosques being built in Serbia again, and the new one being the first one in Vojvodina, at least in the last two centuries) is "normal ... [T]here's nothing strange or exotic about it. It is the sign of a civilized society that is willing to respect the rights and freedoms of all citizens, without favoring or discriminating against members of any religion." He also points that there are in Subotica 8 Catholic churches, 2 Protestant ones, 2 Orthodox ones, a synagogue, "and now also a mosque". For a picture of the newly-opened mosque, click here. I couldn't say that it's a particularly attractive building (what's this dome?). For architecture with a capital A, cf. Zlatko Ugljen's 1980 White Mosque (remember Ronchamp? ;) in the central Bosnian town of Visoko, or the 2001 Stari Ilijas Mosque by Aida Daidzic in Ilijas (near Sarajevo).