1896–1918Bishop's Palace
The Bishop's Court at Novi Sad, with a New Year greeting
The Serbian Orthodox Bishop's Court stands beyond a tall stone cross, at the end of a tree-lined square filled with horse carts, market stalls and pedestrians in early-1900s dress. No motor vehicle or tram appears anywhere in the scene. The caption at top gives the building's name in Serbian Cyrillic alongside the city's Serbian and Hungarian names, and a sender has written a Hungarian New Year's greeting across the lower part of the front of the card rather than on the reverse.
About this place
The residence of the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Bačka, standing at the head of Zmaj Jovina street. The first episcopal palace here was built in 1741 under Bishop Visarion Pavlović next to the Cathedral Church and was destroyed in the bombardment of June 1849. The present palace was completed in 1901 to a design by architect Vladimir Nikolić, its facade blending Byzantine and Serbian medieval monastery motifs with the schooling of Vienna; Patriarch Georgije Branković attended its inauguration. Since 1984 a monument to the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj has stood in front of it.
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2316 × 1496 px
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