Both printed captions are in Hungarian and give the building to the Levente youth corps, which is the name the Hungarian administration put on it between 1941 and 1944. Raised lettering survives across the parapet but is too coarse in this printing to read. The brick and glass front, the colonnaded entrance block and the tall floodlight pylon over the sports ground beside it are all still as built, so nothing had been altered by the time the occupation renamed it.
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.