Children play in a paved square in front of a Gothic Revival cathedral with tall pointed arch windows and buttressed brick walls, while a row of ornate townhouses closes the square on the left. A dry, empty circular fountain basin sits in the foreground, and several bicycles lean near a smaller chapel-like structure between the church and the townhouses. Bare branches on the solitary tree at left suggest late autumn or winter.
About this place
Katolička porta is the short pedestrian lane that runs round the Roman Catholic church of the Name of Mary, off Trg slobode in the middle of Novi Sad. A porta is a church precinct, and the name is simply what the ground was: the yard belonging to the parish. At number 3 stands the Roman Catholic parish house, built in 1808 to plans by Georg Effinger in the manner of the passage from baroque to classicism, a single storey building whose tall hipped roof with two heavy chimneys is close to the only one of its kind to survive the burning of the town in 1849. The parish house is protected as a cultural monument of great importance; its ground floor rooms are vaulted and hold the church offices and archive, and the hall above has a plaster-worked ceiling.
- Date
- 1964
- Coordinates
- 45.25592, 19.84551
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 800 × 517 px
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