{"id":50482,"date":"2025-11-24T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50482\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:47:20","slug":"bosnian-tradition-flows-in-utica-with-new-sebilj-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50482\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosnian Tradition Flows in Utica with New Sebilj | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Bosnian Tradition Flows in Utica with New Sebilj\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6922637d23cd7.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; Utica&#8217;s Bosnian community celebrated the grand opening of a traditional Bosnian fountain called a sebilj in East Utica on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">Local leaders and leaders of Utica&#8217;s Bosnian community cut a ribbon to mark the sebilj&#8217;s grand opening as a large crowd looked on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">The ceremony also featured the release of pigeons and a traditional Bosnian dance performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">The sebilj, modeled after a famous fountain in Sarajevo, was a gift to the City of Utica from local Bosnians to celebrate community and heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">&#8220;This sebilj is not just a monument. It&#8217;s a symbol of who we are, as Bosnians, as immigrants, and as proud members of this community,&#8221; said Hanka Grabovica, president of the Bosnian American Community Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">&#8220;We built more than a fountain,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We built a legacy that will remind generations to come, where we came from and what we stand for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">Utica&#8217;s Bosnian community has continued to grow since the first refugees settled in the area in the early &#8217;90s to escape the Balkan conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Utica&#8217;s Bosnian community celebrated the grand opening of a traditional Bosnian fountain called a sebilj in East Utica on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; Utica&#8217;s Bosnian community celebrated the grand opening of a traditional Bosnian fountain called a sebilj&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[610,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-50482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-local","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-state","13":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-state-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}