CHAPEL AND ANOTHER ORTHODOX CEMETERY REGISTERED AS "STATE" PROPERTY

MOSTAR, JANUARY 19 /SRNA/ – After registering the Orthodox cemetery in the Vrapčići settlement as being owned by the "state" in the land registry, the Municipal Court in Mostar has done the same with a chapel and another Orthodox cemetery located on a separate plot, the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs in the Federation of BiH /FBiH/ has warned.

The Committee stated that the Mostar court carried out the registration of "state" ownership over property belonging to the Serbian Orthodox Church during the harmonization of land registry and cadastral records for the Vrapčići cadastral municipality.

"Yesterday, we informed the public that plot cadastral number 2059, `Kraljevina,` an Orthodox cemetery in the village of Vrapčići, was registered by the Mostar court as being owned by the `state`. Today, we inform the public that we have obtained information that the Mostar court also registered a chapel of the Serbian Orthodox Church, located on another plot, number 1209, cadastral municipality Vrapčići, as `state` property", the statement said.

The Committee added that, in addition to the chapel, there is another Orthodox cemetery on the same plot, where members of the Došlo, Antelj, Luzman, and Vučić families are buried.

The chapel registered as "state" property by the Municipal Court in Mostar is dedicated to the Feast of the Akathist to the Most Holy Mtoher of God, in honor of her icon "Life-Giving Spring," a feast celebrated on the Friday of the first week after Easter.

The Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs in the FBiH announced yesterday that the Municipal Court in Mostar had registered the "state" as the owner of the Orthodox cemetery in the Vrapčići neighborhood of Mostar, whose holder is the Serbian Orthodox Church parish, while the municipal cadastre still lists the Serbian Orthodox Church parish as the holder of the property.

"The registration of the `state` as owner of the Serbian Orthodox cemetery was carried out exactly 534 days after the Municipal Court in Mostar began the harmonization of land registry and cadastral records," the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs in the FBiH noted.