St. Mark (Varna)
The Church St. Mark. (In Serbian : Црква Светог Апостола и Јеванђелиста Марка, Crkva Svetog Apostola i Jevanđelista Marka ) in the Opština (municipality) Sabac gehörendem village Varna is a Serbian Orthodox church in the northwestern Serbia .
Built and from 1903 to 1911 the St. Apostle and Evangelist Mark is consecrated parish church of the parish of Varna in the deanery Pocerina the eparchy Sabac the Serbian Orthodox Church .
location
The Church of St. Mark is in the center of the village of Varna. Varna is located about 8 km south of the municipal capital Šabac. Today's Varna parish consists of Varna and the neighboring village of Gornja Vranjska .
history
The construction of the Church of St. Mark began in 1898 on the initiative of the village priest of the Dobrić Parish Damnjan Vujković , to which the village of Varna also belonged.
He had already collected the first funds for church building by dividing the parish property. A dissatisfied parishioner shot at priest Vujković, who became blind from the consequences of the wounds. His successor Stevan Karanović bought the building site in 1900.
The construction of the church began in 1903. The son of the priest Damnjan Vujković , Nenad Vujković , also a priest, continued building the church. In 1911, the church was completed in August 1911 by the bishop of that diocese Šabac- Valjevo , Sergije (Georgijević) , inaugurated. A free-standing bell tower with two church bells was built in the immediate vicinity of the church.
The church bells were stolen during the First World War (1914–1918). The church was set on fire by Austro-Hungarian soldiers and extinguished by soldiers of the second mobilization of the Timok division of the Serbian army.
In 1923 the renovation and restoration of the church began when three new church bells were bought. It was solemnly rededicated on May 8, 1932 by the bishop of the Šabac-Valjevo eparchy, Mihailo (Urošević) . The rectory was built in 1940 when Varna became the seat of an independent parish. From 2016 to 2018 the church underwent an exterior and interior renovation.
The current priest of the Varna parish is Veroljub Đurđević .
architecture
The church in the form of an elongated Greek cross with a round dome over the intersection of the side arms of the nave has an iconostasis with icons and an interior with newly painted Byzantine frescoes . It has some classicist features, although this form of architecture was already considered obsolete back then.
swell
- Marko Pavlović, Protojerej-stavrofor. Crkve Arhijerijskog namesništva pocerskog. Sabac.
- Entry about the parish of Varna on the site of the Šabac eparchy , (Serbian)
Coordinates: 44 ° 41 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 19 ° 39 ′ 8.9 ″ E