1941–1944The Sokol Hall
The Levente Otthon, Formerly the Sokol Hall, Novi Sad
A modernist multi story building with vertical ribbon windows and stepped massing stands at a street corner, its facade lettered LEVENTE OTTHON near the roofline. Two tall flagpoles stand in front, and a cyclist and pedestrians pass on the street below. The source names the street as ulica Ignjata Pavlasa, called Levente utca under Hungarian rule, identifies the building as originally the Sokol Hall, and dates the photograph to 1938.
About this place
The Sokol hall was built between 1934 and 1936 to a design by Đorđe Tabaković, at the request of the Novi Sad chapter of the Sokol gymnastic movement, and counts among the most important modernist buildings of his career. It was dedicated as the King Alexander I National Home, the name printed across postcards of 1938, and it came about largely through the work of Ignjat Pavlas, head of the Bačka Sokol district, whose name the street now carries. Behind the brick and glass front lay a gymnasium, changing rooms with baths, a large hall for performances and assemblies, meeting rooms, a space set aside for a Sokol museum and a restaurant in the basement, with a sports ground laid out alongside at the same time. During the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944 the cards relabel it Levente-otthon, the home of the Levente youth corps, and the building now holds the Youth Theatre, the oldest puppet theatre in Serbia.
- Date
- 1941–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25526, 19.84892
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Előd Erika
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 5971 × 5570 px
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