A wide unmade street runs away from the camera, and at its far end the slim neo-Gothic spire of the Name of Mary Church rises over the rooftops, with a dome to its left. On the left a low single storey range with a tiled roof has a shop under a signboard lettered FÜRY IMRE, and beyond it stands a taller house with a sculpted figure on its parapet. Lattice poles with two crossarms of insulators carry overhead wires down that side of the street. On the right a long two storey building with banded rustication and round headed ground floor windows fills the frame, giving way to lower houses and shopfronts. In the middle distance a herd of cattle is driven up the road toward the camera with two drovers beside it, people stand on both pavements, and children in the left foreground look at the camera.
About this place
The Roman Catholic parish church of the Name of Mary faces the Town Hall across Trg slobode and is the largest church in Novi Sad. It replaced an eighteenth century church on the same site that was set alight and lost its tower in the bombardment of 12 June 1849; the repairs left the townspeople dissatisfied, and in 1891 the city resolved to pull the old building down and start again. György Molnár drew the plans in 1892 and refused any fee, and the contractors Stefan Gusek and Karl Lerer finished the structure in November 1893 under his supervision, the gilded cross going up on the tower in October 1894. It is a three-aisled neo-Gothic basilica of yellow facing brick, 52 metres long and 25 wide, with a tower of 72 metres, stained glass from Pest workshops and a roof of Zsolnay tiles laid after a fire gutted it in 1904. Novi Sad calls it the cathedral, which it is not: the see of the diocese is at Subotica. In gratitude for the free design the parish set a bust of Molnár in a niche below the choir.
- Date
- 1893-1911
- Coordinates
- 45.25563, 19.84571
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1444 × 830 px
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