A crowd packs the ground before a raw brick building still ringed with timber scaffolding, the poles rising past its arched windows and the brick piers of its veranda. Most of those facing the camera are boys and young men in peaked caps, straw boaters and bowlers, with women in wide hats and men in dark coats among them, and several boys have climbed the tree on the right to see over the heads. Behind the crowd a group of Orthodox clergy stands under a processional banner, with a cross and a lantern carried on poles beside it, and a marquee is pitched among the trees. This is the consecration of the new building of the Serbian Orthodox Grand Gymnasium, raised to Vladimir Nikolić's design in the street then called Aranydomb utca and known today as Zlatne grede.
About this place
The Serbian Orthodox Grand Gymnasium, founded on 27 January 1810, is one of the oldest Serbian secondary schools; today it continues as the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Gymnasium. Its present building was erected in 1900 to a design by architect Vladimir Nikolić, replacing the school's house from the second half of the 18th century, with funds given by Baron Miloš Bajić and other benefactors. Built in an eclectic spirit with elements of Serbian Romantic architecture, it has a floor plan in the shape of the Cyrillic letter П and a first-floor ceremonial hall rich in stucco decoration. The building is protected as a Monument of Great Cultural Significance.
- Date
- 1901
- Coordinates
- 45.25806, 19.84795
- Source
- Museum of Vojvodina, inventory no. 708, via Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Museum of Vojvodina
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 6375 × 4923 px
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