The Hajrija Mosque in central Vlasenica was destroyed during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995, when Serbian forces demolished mosques across the Birac region as part of the ethnic cleansing campaign. It has since been rebuilt and reconsecrated. The restored mosque serves the Bosniak community that has gradually returned to Vlasenica since the war's end — a process that has been slow and politically complicated, as the Republika Srpska entity has not always been welcoming to returnees.
The mosque itself is a modest structure, not architecturally distinguished, but it carries meaning as a symbol of return and reconstruction. Vlasenica is split between returnees and the Serb population that moved in during the war, and the presence of the rebuilt mosque on the main street is a daily fact of the complicated coexistence that the Dayton Agreement created.