St. Sava Cathedral (Vienna)

The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Vienna

The Cathedral of St. Sava. ( Serbian : Саборна црква светог Саве Српског = Saborna crkva Svetog Save Srpskog ) is a Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in the 3rd  Vienna district highway .

The community goes back to a division of the Orthodox church community to the Holy Trinity (that of the later Greek Church to the Holy Trinity ), in which the dispute arose as to whether the Serbian or the Greek language should predominate in the services. In 1860, under Emperor Franz Joseph I, the language dispute was decided in favor of the Greeks. The Serbs, on the other hand, were given the assurance that they would have their own church. In the same year, a first parish was dedicated to St. Sava , which stated that around 1500 Serbs of the Orthodox faith lived in what was then Vienna, around 500 of whom lived in the city permanently. Due to a lack of financial means, the construction of a church did not begin until 1890 and it was finally consecrated in 1893. Among the founders of the church were u. a. Emperor Franz Joseph I and the Serbian King Milan I.

architecture

The church building comprises the church on the ground floor, while the upper floors house a school, a concert and conference hall and the apartments for the priests. Heinrich Wagner was appointed as the architect , the iconostasis was entrusted to a master Albert, the icons and the interior walls were painted by Walter Schmitt. The outer facade of the church building was kept in the neo-Byzantine style.

use

The church is located at Veithgasse No. 3 in the 3rd district of Vienna and is dedicated to St. Sava . It is one and at the same time the oldest of currently three Serbian Orthodox churches in Vienna (the other two are the Church of the Dormition of Mary , consecrated in 1974 in the 17th district of Vienna, and the Church of the Resurrection of Christ , consecrated in 2002 in the 2nd district of Vienna). St. Sava represents the Serbian Orthodox Church in Austria . Until 2011, the church and its congregation were subordinate to the diocese for Central Europe based in Himmelsthür near Hildesheim in Germany. Since then, it has been the cathedral of the newly founded Austria-Switzerland diocese based in Vienna.

Web links

Commons : Serbian Orthodox Church in Vienna (Landstrasse)  - collection of images

• Serbian Orthodox Parish of St. Sava in Vienna / Serbian Church Austria (sr)
• Diocese for Central Europe (de, sr )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handover to the new Serbian Orthodox Bishop. ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archdiocese of Vienna, June 27, 2011

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 55 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 47"  E