A crowded market fills the square before an old church with a clock tower, the Holy Trinity column standing among the stalls, sepia toned in a diamond shaped inset. The caption calls it the old church: the town took it down in the early 1890s to build the Name of Mary Church, so the photograph is older than the card. Another printing of the same view carries a letter written in Novi Sad on 12 June 1899.
About this place
This Roman Catholic parish church stood on the main square of Novi Sad until the Name of Mary Church replaced it on the same site. The parish dates from 1702, and its first church, a modest temporary building, was taken down in 1742. On the same ground a new church went up, helped by well-off Catholics who had moved here after Belgrade fell to the Ottomans in 1739, and Gábor Patachich, Archbishop of Kalocsa, consecrated it in 1742. Set on fire in the bombardment of 12 June 1849, it lost its tower, and the repairs never rebuilt the original tower in full. After the city decided in 1891 to replace it, the church was pulled down in 1892, the year György Molnár drew the plans for its successor. This archive's photographs show its last years: a whitewashed front with one clock tower under a low pyramid roof between two small pedimented gables, beside the Holy Trinity column, with market carts before it.
On the card
Újvidék a régi templommal
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25563, 19.84567
- Source
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum – képeslapok
- Credit
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2321 × 1517 px
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