Historic Islamic Library Reopens In Sarajevo

The facade of the new building of the Gazi Husrev-Beg Library in Sarajevo

Dignitaries from Qatar attended the opening. Qatari donors provided some $8.8 million to finance the construction of the new library.

Bosnian schoolchildren attend the opening ceremony.

Bakir Iyetbegovic (left), the Bosniak member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's tripartite presidency, alongside a Qatari official

The library houses more than 100,000 items. The oldest is an Arabic-language manuscript dating to the beginning of the 12th century.