A market square stretches before a tall Baroque church with a clock in its tower, an ornate column topped with a statue standing beside it. Long exposure has blurred several pedestrians into ghostly shapes while others hold still enough to register sharply, among them men in bowler hats and boys watching the camera. Shops with awnings line the street to the right. The donor's caption identifies the church as one demolished in 1892, on the site where the Church of the Holy Name of Mary stands today, dating this photograph to before that year.
About this place
This Roman Catholic parish church stood on the main square of Novi Sad until the Name of Mary Church replaced it on the same site. The parish dates from 1702, and its first church, a modest temporary building, was taken down in 1742. On the same ground a new church went up, helped by well-off Catholics who had moved here after Belgrade fell to the Ottomans in 1739, and Gábor Patachich, Archbishop of Kalocsa, consecrated it in 1742. Set on fire in the bombardment of 12 June 1849, it lost its tower, and the repairs never rebuilt the original tower in full. After the city decided in 1891 to replace it, the church was pulled down in 1892, the year György Molnár drew the plans for its successor. This archive's photographs show its last years: a whitewashed front with one clock tower under a low pyramid roof between two small pedimented gables, beside the Holy Trinity column, with market carts before it.
- Date
- before 1892
- Coordinates
- 45.25563, 19.84567
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Rosta László
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 6219 × 4292 px
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