The church stands square to the camera across the square, framed by a heavy rusticated arch in the foreground. Its single tower rises through four stages to an open lantern and a tall pierced spire with a cross, a clock face on the stage below, and a rose window sits above the triple portal between two slender pinnacled turrets. Overhead wires cross the sky in front of it. An ornate block with sculpted figures on its gable and a rounded corner bay closes the square on the left, shopfronts and awnings under it, and a gabled building with a shop fascia stands on the right. A few cars are parked at the kerb and people cross the pavement by the portal. In the middle ground a plain rectangular block stands on a low stone base in a grass plot, carrying no figure.
About this place
The Roman Catholic parish church of the Name of Mary faces the Town Hall across Trg slobode and is the largest church in Novi Sad. It replaced an eighteenth century church on the same site that was set alight and lost its tower in the bombardment of 12 June 1849; the repairs left the townspeople dissatisfied, and in 1891 the city resolved to pull the old building down and start again. György Molnár drew the plans in 1892 and refused any fee, and the contractors Stefan Gusek and Karl Lerer finished the structure in November 1893 under his supervision, the gilded cross going up on the tower in October 1894. It is a three-aisled neo-Gothic basilica of yellow facing brick, 52 metres long and 25 wide, with a tower of 72 metres, stained glass from Pest workshops and a roof of Zsolnay tiles laid after a fire gutted it in 1904. Novi Sad calls it the cathedral, which it is not: the see of the diocese is at Subotica. In gratitude for the free design the parish set a bust of Molnár in a niche below the choir.
- Date
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25563, 19.84571
- Source
- Europeana /1090/MNMMUSEUM1703047
- Credit
- Hungarian National Museum via Europeana
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Size
- 435 × 585 px
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