Bohoniki

Local nameBohoniki
LocationPodlaskie Voivodeship, Polska

Bohoniki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sokółka, within Sokółka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It lies approximately 7 kilometres east of Sokółka and 42 km north-east of the regional capital Białystok. The village has a population of 100.

Bohoniki was primarily a Lipka Tatar settlement. Today, still a few families in the village are Tatars and practicing Muslims. Although residents don't speak their native Tatar language, they have close ties to Lipka Tatar and Islamic traditions.Sites of interest in the village include a 19th-century wooden mosque and a Muslim cemetery.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohoniki

Coordinates 53°23'30.128" N 23°35'33.162" E

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