Church of St. Dimitri the Great Martyr (Zemun)
The . Church of the Holy Great Martyr Dimitri ( Serbian : Црква светог великомученика Димитрија, Crkva svetog Dimitrija velikomučenika), also known as Hariševa kapela (Харишева капела), is a Serbian Orthodox cemetery church in the Serbian capital Belgrade .
Together with other Orthodox and Catholic churches, it is a Zemun landmark. The church belongs to the Archeparchy of Belgrade and Karlovci of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
location
The church is located in the center of Belgrade's Zemun district , on Grobljanska Ulica street in the Zemun Orthodox cemetery. Ulica Sibinjanin Janka is located near the church . The church is not far from the bank of the Danube . Opposite the church is the Gardoš tower , another Zemun landmark.
history
The church was built from 1874 to 1878 by order of the Zemun merchant Grigorije Hariš and dedicated to the Holy Great Martyr Demetrios of Thessaloniki (Serbian: Dimitrije Solunski), the patron saint ( Slava ) of the Petrović family. The church, also known as Hariševa kapela (Chapel / Church of Hariš), was bequeathed to his wife Marija, b. Petrović, who is considered to be the actual custodian of the church.
The architect Svetozar Ivačković , the builder Josif Marks, the painter Pavle Simić , who painted the icons of the iconostasis and the frescoes, Jovan Kistner, the carpenter of the iconostasis and Samuel Kolmajer, who gilded the iconostasis, were involved in the construction.
architecture
The building was built in the neo-Byzantine style over the plan of a Greek cross and provided with a dome at the crossing of the naves. The u. a. Important church for the two Zemun families Petrović-Hariš is the work of the well-known Serbian architect Svetozar Ivačković at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries . The paintings by the Serbian classicist Pavle Simić were to be his last work.
After major restoration work, the church has been shining in new splendor since 2017.
literature
- 1.Branko Najhold, Zemunske crkve, Trag, Zemun, 1993
swell
- Article about the church on the page Spomenici kulture, Serbian
- Article about the church on the Beogradskonasledje page, in Serbian
Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 20 ° 24 ′ 32.6 ″ E