The row began last July, when an unusually powerful storm blew the roof off the 150-year-old church tower. The local priest, Mirko Tesic, believes the old church should be pulled down and replaced with a new building, as its foundations are threatened by a landslip. But the man who penned the letter, Predrag Lazarevic, tells Radio Sarajevo that as a professional geologist, he knows there's no landslip. Mr Lazarevic - a descendant of one of the church's founders - adds that the villagers are not against building a new church, as long as the old one is preserved. "If we can, by all means build five more, but let us first protect what we used to have," he says.