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The Church of Saint Sava ( Serbian Cyrillic: Храм Светог Саве, romanized :Hram Svetog Save, lit. ''The Temple of Saint Sava'' [a]) is a Serbian Orthodox church which sits on the Vračar plateau in Belgrade, Serbia. It was planned as the bishopric seat and main cathedral of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Sep 16, 2019 · The Church of Saint Sava is a Serbian Orthodox church located on the Vračar plateau in Belgrade, Serbia. It is one of the largest Eastern Orthodox church buildings and ranks among the largest church buildings in the world. The church is dedicated to Saint Sava, the founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church and an important figure in medieval ...
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Apr 30, 2020 · The church is dedicated to St. Sava, founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church, built on the Vračar plateau where the remains of the saint were cremated by the Ottomans. Due to its location, the church of St. Sava dominates the horizon of Belgrade and is the most monumental building in the city.
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The construction of the temple completes Belgrade's skyline: Kalemegdan - Trg republike - Terazij - Beograđanka - Slavija - Temple of St. Sava. The temple’s main dome rises to a height of 134 metres (439.6 ft), from a level of 64 metres 210 ft above the Sava river. The church, thus, holds a dominant position in skyline of Belgrade and is visible fr...
Construction of the temple had been slow, delayed by events in Serbia over the last century. Three hundred years after the burning of St. Sava's remains, a Society for the Construction of the Temple of St. Sava on Vračar in Belgrade was founded in 1895. The goal of the project was the construction of a temple on the place of his death. Initially, a...
The Church of Saint Sava is a Serbian Orthodox church which sits on the Vračar plateau in Belgrade, Serbia. It was planned as the bishopric seat and main cathedral of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The church is dedicated to Saint Sava, the founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church and an important figure in medieval Serbia. It is built on the presumed location of St. Sava's grave. His coffin had ...
The church is dedicated to St. Sava, founder of the Serbian church and an important figure in medieval Serbia. The temple has been built on the Vračar plateau, on the location where, in 1595, St. Sava’s remains are thought to have been burned by Turkish Sinan Pasha.
The Ottomans burned the relics of St Sava on the Vračar hill in Belgrade on 27 April 1594. One of the most salient political, cultural and religious figures in the history of Serbia, St Sava succeeded in ending the civil war unleashed by his older brothers, founded the Serbian Orthodox Church and became its first archbishop.
