Eternal flame (Sarajevo)

Eternal flame Vječna vatra
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Eternal flame in Sarajevo
For The military and civilian victims of the Second World War in Sarajevo
Established	6 April 1946 (1946-04-06)
Location	43°51′31.90″N 18°25′18.70″E / 43.8588611°N 18.4218611°E / 43.8588611; 18.4218611

The Eternal flame (Serbo-Croatian: Vječna vatra, Вјечна ватра) is a memorial to the military and civilian victims of the Second World War in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The memorial was dedicated on 6 April 1946, the first anniversary of the liberation of Sarajevo from the four-year-long occupation by Nazi Germany and the fascist Independent State of Croatia.

The memorial was designed by architect Juraj Neidhardt and is located in the former Landesbank building at the center of Sarajevo at the junction of Mula Mustafa Bašeskije, Titova and Ferhadija streets.^[1]

The attendees of the memorial come every April 6 to lay flowers and pay their respects in memory of liberators of the city and victims of both World War II and the 1992–1996 Siege of Sarajevo, which began around this date.^[2]