St. Sava Church (Siokovac)
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The church of St. Sava. ( Serbian : Црква Светог Саве, Crkva Svetog Save) is a Serbian Orthodox church in the city of Jagodina associated village Siokovac in Serbia .
It was built in 1938. The memorial church is dedicated to the Serbian national saint , the first archbishop and the illuminator of the Serbian people, Sava of Serbia . It is the parish church of the Siokovac parish and parish in the Belič deanery of the Šumadija eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
location
The Church of St. Sava is located in the center of Siokovac village. In the fenced churchyard to the east of the church is the local war memorial and the newly built rectory. The village ambulance of Siokovac is not far from the church. The Siokovački potok stream flows east of the church through the village.
Siokovac is located west of the city of Jagodina and has about 350 inhabitants. The city of Jagodina belongs to the Okrug Pomoravlje in the Šumadija region in central Serbia .
history
In 1937 in what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , preparations began to build the church. At that time Patriarch Varnava (Rosić) had decided with the responsible church committee that it is a memorial church for the murdered King Aleksandar I Karađorđević and the fallen soldiers in the First World War and that it will also house an ossuary . The President of the Church Committee was the Archimandrite of the Monastery of Jošanica Teodosije (Tošić).
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In 1938 the church was built during the reign of King Petar II Karađorđević and the tenure of Patriarch Gavrilo V (Dožić) and was completed in October of the same year. The church was built thanks to donations from Siokovac residents. At that time the village belonged to the parish of the Jošanica Monastery with the then parish priest Stanko Lazarević.
Although the church was completed in 1938, the first Holy Liturgy in the church took place on February 12, 1942, the holiday of the Three Hierarchs during World War II .
The Church of St. Sava was solemnly consecrated by the bishop of the Šumadija eparchy, Valerijan (Stefanović) in 1959 in what is now socialist Yugoslavia .
The current priest of the church is Ivan Jovanović. The Siokovac Slava is the second day of Pentecost .
architecture
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The single - nave cross-domed church with a semicircular altar - apse in the east, a round dome over the middle of the nave at the intersection of the side arms of the church and a small church tower in the west, is built in the style of the Morava school , a style of the Serbian-Byzantine architectural style.
It is designed in the form of a trikonchos and has a main entrance in the west above which there is a patronage fresco of St. Sava and a side entrance on the north side.
To some extent it is a copy of the medieval church of St. Stephen the First Martyr in Kruševac . The stripes on the outside facade of the church are striking.
Typically for Orthodox churches, the church has a (wooden) iconostasis with icons . It is currently not frescoed inside . In the interior of the church there are two marble slabs with golden Cyrillic letters on which reports about the construction of the church and the ktitors of the church are given.
supporting documents
- Article about the church on the website of the eparchy Šumadija , (Serbian)
- Article about the parish on the Belič deanery website , (Serbian)
