Church of St. Sava (Jošan)
The Church of St. Sava ( Serbian : Црква Светог Саве, Croatian : Crkva Svetog Save) is a Serbian Orthodox church in the village of Jošan, part of the Općina Udbina, in central Croatia .
Built in 1881, church buildings is the National Serb saint, the first archbishop and the illuminator of the Serb people, Sava of Serbia dedicated
It is the parish church of the parish Josan in the parish Korenica in the deanery Lika , the Eparchy of Upper Karlovac of the Serbian Orthodox Church .
location
The Church of St. Sava is located in the center of Jošan, a village in the Krbavsko Polje region in the historical Lika region in Općina Udbina in the Lika-Senj County in north-western Croatia. The village inhabited by Serbs had only 66 inhabitants at the 2011 census. Before the Croatian war over 220 people lived in the place.
The place is located 7 km northwest of the municipal capital Udbina and lies on the Lička magistrala road , which connects the Dalmatian capital Split with the Croatian capital Zagreb .
history
In 1701 a small Serbian Orthodox church for the birth of St. John the Baptist was built in the village of Jošan on a slope of the Plješevica Mountains . After the construction of the St. Sava church, this served as a subsidiary church for the parish . The Church of St. Sava was built in 1881. Among others, Toma Budisavljević and Vuk Budisavljević, great-grandfather and maternal grandfather of the physicist Nikola Tesla, served as priests .
1941 at the time of World War II church, branch church and rectory were from the Croatian - fascist Ustasha torched and destroyed.
After the war, the church was rebuilt in socialist Yugoslavia . The rectory, however, does not. Right next to the church a monument to the fallen was Tito - Partisans and victims of the massacre built. The old memorial plaque with all the names of the victims was completely destroyed in 1995 when the Croatian army marched in during the Croatian War, and a new plaque was erected in 2016.
During the Croatian War in 1995 the church was badly damaged by the Croatian army. The church has been partially renovated, but most of the windows and the church steeple are still damaged. The parish of Jošan no longer has its own parish priest and is looked after by the priest from Korenica.
architecture
The single-nave church with a semicircular altar - apse in the east and a small church tower on the west side with a small round dome , has a main entrance on the west side and a side entrance on the south facade.
supporting documents
- Article about the parish on the website of the Upper Karlovac Eparchy , (Serbian)
- Article about the church on tromedja.rs , (Serbian)
Coordinates: 44 ° 34 ′ 34.4 " N , 15 ° 44 ′ 55.9" E