Church of St. George the Great Martyr (Jarak)
The Church of St. George the Great Martyr ( Serbian : Црква Светог великомученика Георгија / Crkva Svetog velikomučenika Georgija ) in Jarak, a village in the Opština Sremska Mitrovica (municipality of Sremska Mitrovica province ), is an Orthodox Church in the Voština -Orthodox province of North -Eastern Serbia . It is a cultural monument of great importance.
The church was built from 1771 to 1774 or 1779. It is dedicated to the Holy Great Martyr George . The church is the parish church of the Jarak parish in the Sremska Mitrovica deanery of the Srem eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church .
location
The church building is located at 23 Savska Ulica street in the southwest center of Jarak. The church is not far from the bank of the Sava , on the right bank of which the village of Jarak is located. There is also a Serbian Orthodox village cemetery in the village.
Jarak belongs to the Opština Sremska Mitrovica, which is part of the historical Srem region. Along with the Bačka and the Banat , the Srem is one of the three major historical regions of Vojvodina.
History and architecture
An older Orthodox church stood in front of today's church. The single-nave church of St. George the Great Martyr was built from 1771 to 1774. In the parish archives, however, the year 1779 is mentioned as the year the church was built. The church has the style chosen for orthodox church buildings, a semicircular altar - apse in the east and a church tower in the west. The high baroque church tower with an onion dome was added to the church later.
The facade of the church is adorned by high horizontal pedestals with profiled eaves and wreaths, as well as flat vertical pilasters . Above the western church entrance on the church tower you can see the patronage icon, which depicts St. George the Great Martyr.
The church has a south and west portal. The gable roof at the western main entrance rests on two massive pillars whose capitals are decorated with flat carved ornaments.
Since the church and the whole village of Jarak were set on fire by the Austro-Hungarian army in September 1914 at the time of the First World War , the frescoes and wall paintings can only be seen in fragments.
The conservation and restoration work has been ongoing since 1997. The current priest of the church is Archpriest Dušan Todorović.
Iconostasis and icons
In the church there is an artistically high quality carved baroque iconostasis from 1797. It is a masterpiece by the famous iconostasis builder Aksentije Marković and shows in an excellent way the style of the baroque in Serbian art of that time.
The front main icons are adorned by fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and a network of rose petals and leaves twines around the bases and icons .
In 1797 the iconostasis was decorated with valuable icons. The icon painters were the two famous icon painters Jakov Orfelin and Stefan Gavrilović . In this joint work of two great artists, the fruitful collaboration of painters with different stylistic attitudes was shown.
The handwriting of Orfelin is clearly visible, a painter with a high academic education in the Rococo - Baroque style . And the handwriting of Gavrilović, a painter of the Baroque-Rococo style, who also incorporated classicist elements in his work, is recognizable.
Therefore, the iconostasis of the Church of St. George in Jarak offers a good opportunity to study this extremely important transition period in Serbian painting of the 18th century .
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- Article about the Church on the Spomenici kulture u Srbiji page , (Serbian)
- Article about the Church on the side of the Eparchy Srem , (Serbian)
Coordinates: 44 ° 54 ′ 46.4 " N , 19 ° 46 ′ 42.2" E