Architect: Zlatko
Ugljen. with D. Malkin (Engineer)
Craftsman: Ismet Imamovic
Contractor: Zvijezda.

The award that came from the Aga Khan Development Network listed
this mosque as one of the most valuable modern mosques built in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The network stated that:

The mosque serves as a religious and intellectual centre for its
community. Its geometrically simple plan encloses a complex, slope-ceilinged,
skylit volume, pure, abstract, sparsely ornamented and painted white. The
archetypal Bosnian mosque has a simple square plan crowned by a cupola and
entered by means of a small porch. The White Mosque’s plan conforms to the
archetype, but its roof is a freely deformed quarter of a cupola, pierced by
five skylights, themselves composed of segments of quarter cupolas. The effect
is one of confrontation between the elementary plan and the sophisticated
hierarchy of roof cones. The principal symbolic elements, mihrab, minbar,
minaret and fountains, have a fresh folk art character subtly enhanced by the
avant-garde geometries of their setting.

Zlatko Ugljen has also been commended for “masterfully
assimilat[ing] modern influences, especially Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Cathedral,
and traditional Ottoman forms and elements”.