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Interior Church of Saint Sava. The Church of Saint Sava (Serbian Cyrillic: Храм Светог Саве, romanized: Hram Svetog Save, lit. ''The Temple of Saint Sava'') is a 79 m high [6] Serbian Orthodox church, which sits on the Vračar plateau in Belgrade, Serbia. It was planned as the bishopric seat and main cathedral of the Serbian ...
English: Gilt cross surmounting the main dome of the Saint Sava Temple. Belgrade, Serbia. Date: 7 December 2011: Source: Own work: Author: Михајло ...
Belgrade is the seat of a Catholic archdiocese, with a small Catholic community and several Catholic churches. One of these, St Anthony's, was designed by the noted Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik. The Bajrakli Mosque, built in 1526 by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, is one of the oldest surviving structures in contemporary ...
Karađorđe Monument and Church of Saint Sava. Vračar plateau (Serbian: Врачарски плато, romanized: Vračarski plato) is a plateau on top of the Vračar Hill in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, with an absolute height of 134 metres (440 feet) above sea level.
English: Church of Saint Sava (Belgrade, Serbia) with the monument to Karađorđe, leader of first Serbian uprising against the Turks Српски / srpski: Црква светог Саве на Врачару у Београду, поред споменика Карађорђу (2021)
The site where Saint Sava's relics were burnt, the Vračar plateau, became the new grounds of the National Library of Serbia and the Church of Saint Sava dedicated to the saint, in the 20th century. From its location, the church dominates Belgrade's cityscape, and has become a national symbol.
"The Society for the Embellishment of Vračar" suggested to Belgrade City Council to rename Englezovac to Savinac (Serbian for Sava's place) on 31 March 1894. They stated that it is "a shame for the Serbian capital that a whole district is called Englishman's" and inconceivable that a national shrine (Temple of Saint Sava) lie on foreign property.
The Serbian Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Sava on January 27 [O.S. January 14]. [61] In Serbian, his feast day is widely known as Савиндан (Savindan; Saint Sava Day [sr; ru]). [63] [64] Despite his undeniable opposition to Roman Catholicism, he is still venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, being commemorated on ...