Chapel of the Great Martyrs Tsar Lazar and all Serbian New Martyrs (Šamac)
The . Chapel St. Great Martyr Tsar Lazar and all Serbian Martyrs ( Serbian : Капела Светог великомученика цара Лазара и Светих српских новомученика , Kapela Svetog velikomučenika cara Lazara i Svetih Srpskih novomučenika), in the town of Šamac , is a Serbian Orthodox cemetery chapel in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina .
The chapel , consecrated to the Holy Great Martyr and Tsar Lazar and all Serbian new martyrs , was built from 1993 to 1994 and belongs to the parish of Šamac I in the Modriča - Gradačac deanship of the Zvornik - Tuzla eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
location
The chapel stands in the center of the old Serbian Orthodox cemetery in the southwest of the city. Near the cemetery, the town's main street Šamac that hits Ulica Cara Dušana the highway M17 .
Šamac has around 5500 inhabitants and is the center of the Opština of the same name in northernmost Bosnia on the border with Croatia . At Šamac, the Bosna river flows into the Save , which forms the border between the two countries here.
The Opština Šamac is located in the Republika Srpska , the predominantly Serbian part of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
history
Old cemetery church
For the salvation of her deceased spouse, Mrs. Mara Aleksić donated 10,000 m² of land to the parish of Šamac. The city's Serbian Orthodox cemetery, which still exists today, was laid out on this building site. The oldest tombs in the cemetery date from the 19th century. There is now a second new Serbian Orthodox cemetery in Šamac.
The old cemetery church was deliberately destroyed by explosives during the Bosnian War on January 27, 1992, the Slava (holiday) of the Serbian national saint, St. Sava of Serbia by Croatian - Bosniak paramilitary units. Thus this cemetery church was the first religious building on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be destroyed as a result of the Yugoslav wars.
Today's cemetery chapel
Today's cross-domed church in the form of a Greek cross with the dimensions 7.1 × 7 m was built from 1993 to 1994, during the ongoing Bosnian War. The church was built according to a design by the architect Branko Pešić from the Serbian capital Belgrade .
On November 8, 1993, the then bishop of the Zvornik-Tuzla Vasilije (Kačavenda) eparchy consecrated the chapel foundations. And after a year of construction, the chapel was completed in 1994 and was consecrated on November 8, 1994 by Bishop Vasilije (Kačavenda).
supporting documents
Coordinates: 45 ° 3 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 18 ° 27 ′ 37.3 ″ E