St. Sava Church (Jarmenovci)
The Church of St. Sava ( Serbian : Црква Светог Саве, Crkva Svetog Save), also known as the Church of St. Sava of Serbia , is a Serbian Orthodox church in the village of Jarmenovci, part of Opština Topola, in the Šumadija district in central Serbia .
The church, built from 1968 to 1972, 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 Jarmenovci parish in the Kačer deanery , the Žiča eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church .
location
The church is located in the center of the village of Jarmenovci, which has around 390 inhabitants, southwest of the municipal capital Topola.
In the churchyard, next to the Church of St. Sava, there is also the older Church of the Protection and Intercession of the Virgin Mary , which is protected as a cultural monument, and a monument to the soldiers from the Wars of Liberation from 1912 to 1918, built in 1923.
history
The church was built from 1968 to 1972 at the time of the parish priest Radivoje Pinić in what was then socialist Yugoslavia . After the completion of the construction work in 1972, the Church of St. Sava was inaugurated by the then Bishop of the Eparchy Žiča Vasilije (Kostić) . The current parish priest is Dragan Mijailović .
architecture
The church is built in the traditional Serbian-Byzantine architectural style with an altar - apse in the east, a round dome in the middle of the nave at the intersection of the side arms of the church and a small steeple above the west facade of the church.
The plan is a Greek cross . The main entrance to the church is on the west side of the church and two more on the south side.
Typically for Orthodox church buildings, it has an iconostasis with icons . It is also painted inside with partly Byzantine frescoes .
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