Jevrejsko groblje

The Jewish cemetery is located at the northern entrance to the city of Mostar from Sarajevo. In the Jewish Almanac 1928/1929. According to the statistics of Jewishness of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, there was a synagogue in Mostar as early as 1889. It is unknown where the first Jewish cemetery in Mostar was located. The soil books of the City of Mostar state that the plot on which the present-day Jewish Cemetery is located is A. k.č. 1881 - Bekla Cherry B-1 Cemetery / since 1890 owned by the Jewish Municipality of Mostar, and this date is taken as the time of its occurrence, The Jewish Cemetery in Mostar was built in 1996. and a memorial to the Jews of Mostar was built in 1997 at the Jewish Cemetery. In 2004, the Jewish Cemetery in Mostar was designated a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Jews regard their cemeteries as holy places, calling them the house of the graves, the house of life, the house of eternity. The orientation of the deceased is always directed with its head towards the east - Jerusalem and Mount Zion. The custom of fencing the cemetery and marking the grave of a leading, significant figure is conditional on the burial of ten (minyan) members of the Jewish community. (Mutapčić, p. 323.) Most of the tombstones in the Jewish Cemetery in Mostar are made up of the so-called lying tombstones, which, according to some authors, originate in ancient Palestine. The laid monuments, since ancient times, were either monolithic or composed of several quadrants. The tradition of laid monuments was largely continued by Jews in the Middle East, and later in the Pyrenees and Apennines, giving them gradually newer forms. Such monuments can be seen all over the world where the Sephardic Jews were buried, especially the shape of a flattened sarcophagus, that is, a tombstone. This guy is not represented in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It can be said that in this area a special form of tombstone has emerged, which in appearance resembles medieval stećak tombstones or simplified ancient sarcophagi. (Memorial, p. 128.)