Church of the Transfer of the Relics of St. Sava (Drvengrad)

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The Church of the Transfer of the Relics of St. Sava in Drvengrad

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 Drvengrad in the Opština Uština in western Serbia .

It was built from 2003 to 2004. The wooden church 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, were transferred from the Bulgarian Veliko Tarnowo to the Mileševa Monastery in the south-west Serbian mountainous region about 5 km east of Prijepolje .

The church building belongs to the Deanery of Užice of the Žiča Eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

location

The main street of Drvengrad with the church

The church stands in the center of the tourist attraction Drvengrad on the top of the Mećavnik hill at the end of the main street of the village, Ulica Ive Andrića, named after the well-known Yugoslav writer and Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić . The village is located southwest of the municipality capital Užice .

The open-air museum-like village planned by the well-known film director Emir Kusturica is about one kilometer west of the village of Mokra Gora in the Zlatibor Mountains in the westernmost central Serbia , near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina .

history

The construction of the wooden church began in 2003 with the blessing of the Bishop of the Eparchy Žiča Hrizostom (Stolić) according to a plan by the architect Miloš Milovanović. The church's custodians are Emir Kusturica and his wife Maja Mandić Kusturica. It is architecturally based on old Russian wooden churches.

The construction of the church was completed in January 2004 and the church was consecrated on January 24th by Bishop Hrizostom (Stolić), on the same day the first divine liturgy took place in it. On January 26th, 2016 the first wedding in the church took place in the church with the presence of the presenter and actress Snežana Ivanović and the producer Stefan Sokić.

architecture

The church building and the bell tower directly to the north of the church are made entirely of wood and stand on stone foundations. The walls are made of pine boards and are covered with shingle roofs. The pines come from the area.

The richly decorated door on the west facade, above which there is a patronage mosaic of St. Sava, was a gift from the city of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia . It was performed in Rajko Đinković's wood carving studio. The large church bell was a gift from Novak Todorović from Sarajevo .

The sanctuary was designed according to a concept by Vesna Golubović. Typical for Orthodox church buildings, it has a (wooden) iconostasis with icons .

The iconostasis was made of linden wood . The linden wood comes directly in front of the oldest church in the Mokra Gora region in the village of Kršanje , the Ascension Church from the 14th century. The iconostasis was made in the traditional Serbian-Byzantine style by the masters of the Petrović wood carving studio in Belgrade , and the iconostasis is decorated in the style of the Morava school.

The icons were painted by Vesna Golubović, a painter from the Bosnian town of Banja Luka , who graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Fine Arts with Professor Stojan Ćelić and completed her master's degree. In the workshop of Dmitry Andreyev in New York, she also learned the Russian technique of icon painting. The liturgical books and items for worship were purchased in the Russian capital Moscow .

gallery

  • View of the chancel of the church (east side)

  • Panoramic view of Drvengrad with the church

  • View of the iconostasis

  • Wooden house with church in the background

  • Close up view of the bell tower

supporting documents

literature

  • Лексикон националних паркова Србије - ТАРА. Београд: ЈП Службени гласник; ЈП Национални парк Тара; ГИ "Јован Цвијић" -САНУ. 2015. стр. 291. ISBN 978-86-519-1899-8 .

Coordinates: 43 ° 47 ′ 44.3 "  N , 19 ° 30 ′ 29.9"  E