A rendered chapel stands on bare ground behind a chain fence, three round arches on square piers forming an open loggia across its front with the doorway set back in the middle bay. Above the loggia a shaped gable rises in curved steps to a cross, an arched recess near its top and a small round opening below it, and a second cross stands on the parapet of the lower roof in front. An external stair with a run of turned balusters climbs the left flank to a terrace, heavier piers marking the corners of its parapet. A low wall carrying chain link and a swagged chain runs across the foreground, a gate stands at the right, and bare poplars and a young bare tree frame the building, which puts the picture in winter or early spring.
About this place
A Calvary is a Catholic devotional structure, an arcaded chapel with an outside stair climbing to the platform where three crosses stand, closing a Way of the Cross. Novi Sad had one on what was then the western edge of the city, near the point where Futoški put meets Cara Dušana, a short walk from the Roman Catholic cemetery laid out in 1860 and from the public hospital begun in 1907; the note attached to the photograph in this archive is the source for that siting, and no published account of the structure has been traced. It is gone today. Petrovaradin kept a Calvary of its own on the far bank, at the end of an old Way of the Cross that started at the church of Saint Roch in Novi Majur and finished at an underground chapel standing for the tomb; the middle of its three crosses was pulled down in the 1990s and the two others are still there, damaged.
- Approximate
- 1918–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.24924, 19.82454
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 3008 × 1950 px
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