A large eclectic apartment building fills the frame, its ground floor lined with arcaded shopfronts and a sign reading Trafika above one entrance, upper floors carrying wrought iron balconies, and a corner turret capped by a small dome. Two bare trees stand in front on a plaza where a handful of pedestrians in overcoats and hats walk past. A printed caption along the bottom names it in Cyrillic and Latin script as the palace of the Catholic Church parish community, with the number 401 printed at the lower right.
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.
On the card
Нови Сад-Палата Католичке Црквене општине / Novi Sad-Palata Katoličke Crkvene opštine / 401 / [JUGO]SLAVIJA TRAFIKA / TRAFIKA / FOTO
- Date
- 1930s
- Coordinates
- 45.25592, 19.84551
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1586 × 1030 px
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