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Copyright: Marcin Zielinski (goeast)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-06-09 |
| Categories: Daily Life |
| Exposure: f/4.5, 1/1000 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-08-02 4:52 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The Muslim crescents against woody landscapes of Polish Podlasie region. This one has been shot on the Muslim cemetery in the village of Bohoniki.
Podlasie region is also the land of ethnic and religious minorities. As it is „province on the border lines”, Podlasie has always been influenced by many cultures including Polish (of course), Russian (with its many shades), Jewish and Muslim.
The Tartar soldiers of Muslim origin have been settled in several villages of Podlasie by the Polish king Jan III Sobieski in the 17th Century. They have been granted with the land as the royal treasury was empty at that time and the soldiers could not have been paid for the military service simply by cash. In the next centuries, Tartars stood firm by Muslim religion and built several mosques (two of them still can be found in villages of Kruszyniany and Bohoniki).
According to the words of Eugenia Radkiewicz (the Bohoniki mosque’s administrator and devoted guide) the Polish Muslim group tries to come back to thier roots. Some of them – especially young ones – stand to one of the Muslim’s duties and travel to the holy Mekka. |
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