A postcard of the Roman Catholic School Sisters' convent and girls' school in Njegoševa Street, the institution traditionally known in Novi Sad as the Kloster. The long two-storey façade belongs to the building at today's Njegoševa 9, where several pedestrians and women in religious habits stand along the pavement. The site had previously contained the well-known Kod Fazana inn and an early theatrical venue. The Roman Catholic parish acquired the property for girls' education in the 1870s, and the School Sisters began teaching there on 4 August 1878. The Novi Sad house belonged to the Kalocsa School Sisters of Our Lady, a congregation devoted particularly to the education of girls. The card was used in February 1930, during a period when the former confessional school was being incorporated into the state school system.
About this place
A short street of just under 350 metres running from Liberty Square past Trifković Square, first settled by German merchants from 1739-40; part of it already appears on the 1745 city plan and it had its present outline by the end of the 18th century. It was long known as White Ship street (German Weisse Schiff-Gasse, Hungarian Fehér-hajó utca) after the famous Bela lađa tavern at No. 5, then renamed after Hungarian prime minister Gyula Andrássy in the 1890s, and after the First World War given the name of the poet-bishop Petar II Petrović Njegoš. Its landmarks include the Art Nouveau Iron Man palace of 1909 at No. 2 and the 1880s school building at No. 22, built as a Hungarian state girls' school and now the Svetozar Marković Gymnasium.
On the card
Novi-Sad: Samostan Školskih Sestara. Iskolanővérek Intézete / NOVI SAD
Novi Sad: Convent of the School Sisters. Institute of the School Sisters. / Novi Sad
- Date
- by February 1930
- Coordinates
- 45.25583, 19.84468
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2400 × 1546 px
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