Ascension Church (Deč)
The Church of the Ascension of Christ ( Serbian : Црква Вазнесења Господњег / Crkva Vaznesenja Gospodnjeg ) in the village of Deč in Opština Pećinci in Okrug Srem is a Serbian Orthodox church in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina . The church, built between 1829 and 1831, is dedicated to the Ascension of Christ .
The listed church belongs to the Eparchy Srem of the Serbian Orthodox Church .
location
The church is located in the center of the village. Deč has around 1,500 inhabitants, over 98% of whom belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church. The place is about 30 km west of Belgrade .
History and architecture
The church is a single-nave building with a steeple that does not look very prominent today. The architect was the mason Mojsije Janković from Sremska Mitrovica . In 1834 the Serbian wood carver and carpenter Pavle Bošnjaković created the choir , metropolitan throne and metropolitan table . Georgije Dević made the iconostasis in 1839 .
The church in Deč is characterized by harmonious proportions and a harmonious facade and contains elements of baroque and classicism .
The classicist architectural style can be recognized by the alternation of decorative bands and terraced fields with indented windows and cornices formed in the classicist manner on the central part of the facade above the main entrance of the church.
The current appearance of the church does not match that of the church from 1831. 1944 during the Second World War , the baroque church of the retreating Germans was blown to the advancing Red Army and Tito - Partisans to leave no lookout, while the church was badly damaged. The church's first steeple was taller and taller than the current one, and it also had a baroque onion dome and clocks on each side of the church. Today's smaller and more inconspicuous church tower was built in socialist Yugoslavia . The last renovation or restoration of the church took place in 1928.
Iconostasis
The architectural concept of the iconostasis is in line with the stylistic currents of the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1848 the artist Konstantin Pantelić painted the icons for the iconostasis and the frescoes of the church, and he also painted the church choir. Pantelić was an icon and fresco painter in the churches of Srem and Banat in the 1840s – 80s and is considered one of the most famous painters of the era for northern Serbia.
The multi-door iconostasis is richly decorated with floral elements and decorations. The iconostasis has over 30 icons of saints and Christian holidays, as well as a wonderfully worked tsar door, whereby the icons of All Saints Mother of God and St. John the Apostle are to be emphasized.
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Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ 10.5 ″ N , 20 ° 6 ′ 55.3 ″ E