Church of the Transfer of the Relics of St. Sava (Supnje)
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 Supnje in Opštwestina Raška in southern Serbia .
It was built from 2002 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 parish church of the Supnje I and II parishes and the Nikoljačka parish in the Novi Pazar deanery , the Raška-Prizren eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church .
location
The Church of the Transfer of the Relics of St. Sava is located in the (eastern) center of Supnje, on Ulica Igora Nikića, not far from the village's primary school. The village with around 4,000 inhabitants is located not far from the municipality capital Raška at the mouth of the Raška river in the Ibar in Okrug Raška in south-western central Serbia .
In the fenced churchyard there is a free-standing church tower to the south of the church and a small chapel to light candles to the north. Around the church are small miniature models of various important churches and monasteries in the area, such as B. the Petrova crkva or the Sopoćani Monastery .
history
The construction of the church began in 2002 when the then Bishop Artemije (Radosavljević) consecrated the foundations of the church to the eparchy. The church was built in the following years thanks to donations from the population.
And on June 7, 2015, the church was inaugurated by Bishop Teodosije (Šibalić) of the Raška-Prizren eparchy with the assistance of several clergymen and the presence of several hundred believers from the area.
Bishop Teodoije awarded Branislav Marinković from Raška the Order of St. King Milutin for his great service in building the church . In addition, Mr. Vladan and Dragan Milojević and Dragoljub Puzović from Supnje received the episcopal letter of blessing for their efforts.
The church is the seat of the two Supnje parishes in the Nikoljačka parish . The priest of the first parish of Supnje is Archpriest Dejan Nikolić (he was elevated to the rank of archpriest by Bishop Teodosije at the church consecration) and the priest of the second parish of Supnje is priest Mirko Jeremić.
architecture
It is designed in the form of a trikoncho and its structure is reminiscent of the medieval Morava school , a traditional style of the Serbian-Byzantine architectural style .
The plan of the church is an elongated Greek cross , with a semicircular altar - apse in the east and a central round dome that rises above the drum in the middle of the nave . On the west side of the church is the narthex with the main entrance to the church, above which there is an icon of the patron saint of St. Sava. There is another entrance to the church on the south side.
Typical for Orthodox church buildings, it has a (wooden) iconostasis with icons . The interior of the church is not currently frescoed .
supporting documents
- Article about the consecration of the church on the website of the Raška-Prizren eparchy , (Serbian)
- Article about the parish on the website of the Novi Pazar deanery , (Serbian)
- Information about the church on the website www.raska-turizam.rs , (Serbian)
- Article about the churches on the website www.localprayers.com , (Serbian)