The church stands over the tiled roofs of the houses below it, its bell tower carrying a clock face and an onion-domed lantern above a stage of small arched openings, with cross finials and corner pinnacles. A second, smaller tower rises behind it over the crossing, bulbous-domed with an open lanternette, and a blind arcade of round-arched openings runs along the upper wall of the nave. Bare winter branches cross the picture at the right and a small stone marker stands against the wall below. The card is printed as a single colour in blue. Its caption is set in Cyrillic and again in Latin, the two-script pairing of the Kingdom, and it places the village in Srem, which distinguishes it from the other Kamenicas; both versions identify the church by confession, Serbian Orthodox.
About this place
The Serbian Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Virgin stands at Karađorđeva 19 in Sremska Kamenica. It replaced an earlier church of the Presentation of the Virgin; its founder was Živan Crnogorac, archpriest of Sremski Karlovci. The heritage register dates it to 1737-1758 and describes traditional Serbian church building with Baroque elements: a single nave, a five-sided apse, and a dome on a ten-sided drum carried by four free-standing piers, the brick and stone walls banded by a double frieze of blind arcades. A three-storey stone bell tower with a Baroque cap was added to the west front in the middle of the eighteenth century. Jov Vasilijevič and Vasilije Ostojić painted the first iconostasis in 1753; Marko Vujatović carved the altar screen in 1797, and Stefan Gavrilović painted the iconostasis in 1802. The church has been protected since 1949 and is a cultural monument of great importance. This archive's postcards and photographs show the clock tower and the dome over the village roofs.
On the card
Каменица (Срем), Срп. прав. црква / Kamenica (Srem), Srp. prav. crkva
- Date
- 1920s
- Coordinates
- 45.22357, 19.83816
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 689 × 1076 px
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