Church of the Transfer of the Relics of St. Sava (Dragijevica)
The Church of the Transfer of the Relics of St. Sava ( Serbian : Црква преноса моштију светог Саве, Crkva prenosa moštiju svetog Save) is a Serbian Orthodox church in the village of Dragijevica in western Serbia in Osečina Opština .
It was built from 2000 to 2015. The church building is dedicated to the holiday when the relics of the Serbian national saint , the first archbishop and the illuminator of the Serbian people, Sava of Serbia from the Bulgarian Veliko Tarnowo were transferred to the Mileševa monastery in the south-west Serbian mountainous region about 5 km east of Prijepolje . It is the only church in the Valjevo Eparchy dedicated to this patronage .
It is the parish church of the parish Dragijevica in the deanery of Pogorina , the Valjevo eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church .
location
The Church of the Transfer of the Relics of St. Sava is located in the (northern) center of Dragijevica on the Lug meadow. The village with around 530 inhabitants is located on the main road Valjevo - Loznica, southeast of the municipal capital Osečina and about 25 km northwest of Valjevo in the Kolubara district in north-western central Serbia .
In the walled churchyard, not far from the church, is the rectory.
History and architecture
According to local legend, in 1934, shortly after the murder of King Aleksandar I Karađorđević in Marseille , France , at the time of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia , St. Sava appeared to the farmer Velimir Timotić from the village at night in a small water mill on the Jadar River and showed him the spot on the meadow of Lug where the villagers were supposed to build a church. The following day, the villagers erected a wooden cross made of oak on the spot .
The construction of the church began in 2000. And on November 12th of the same year, on the feast of St. King Milutin , the foundations of the church were consecrated by the bishop of the then Great Parchy Šabac -Valjevo Lavrentije (Trifunović) . The building land was a gift from Vojislav Antonić and the rectory was built with a donation from the Jeremić family from Dragijevica. The architect Tihomir Dražić from Valjevo designed the building plan.
In 2011 the dome of the church, which is clad with aluminum sheet from Sevojno , was plastered and completed. The facade of the church was also started to be plastered. The nave had to be covered with a roof and the necessary carpentry work on the iconostasis had to be carried out. The interior of the church also had to be prepared. The church was completed in the following years.
On Sunday, October 11, 2015, the church was inaugurated by the then bishop of the Eparchy Valjevo Milutin (Knežević) with the assistance of several clergymen and the presence of several hundred believers from the area.
The church was built by the villagers, Života Marković from Dragijevica, who lives in France, and priest Nenad Marković from Valjevo, as well as Stanimir Matić and Vera Stevanović, had great merit in building the church. Mrs. Stevanović had helped with the building of the church in Dragijevica with the blessing of the Patriarch of His Holiness Pavle (Stojčević) at the time.
The single-nave church is designed in the form of a longer stretched trikonchos , it has a stepped half-cornered altar - apse on the east side, a dome standing over the northern half of the nave with a pointed roof on which the church cross stands, and a half-cornered conche the north and south sides. On the west side of the church there is a canopy supported by columns, on which the church bell is also mounted. The church has three entrances, the main entrance on the west side and a side entrance each on the north and south side.
Typical for Orthodox church buildings, it has a (wooden) iconostasis with icons . The interior of the church is not currently frescoed . The icons are the work of the academic painter Gojko Ristanović .
The church is currently looked after by the archpriest of the parish church of St. George in the village of Osladić Zoran Jerotić .
supporting documents
- Article about the consecration of the church on the side of the Serbian Orthodox Church , (Serbian)
- Article about the construction work on the church on the side of the Serbian Orthodox Church , (Serbian)
- Article about Kirchenslava on the Valjevo Eparchy , (Serbian)
- Information about the church on the radioistocnik page , (Serbian)
- Article about the legend on the page stanjestvari.com , (Serbian)
- Article about the consecration of the church on the Opština Osečina website , (Serbian)