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Main Street at the Epiphany Cross

circa 1880 · engraving

The Epiphany Cross toward the Name of Mary Church

1895–1909

The Wayside Cross by the Bishop's Court, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

Market day on Main Street toward the Name of Mary church

1896–1918 · postcard

Main Street and the Bishop's Palace

1896–1918 · postcard

The Main Street, Novi Sad, with Market Stalls

1896–1918 · postcard

Duna Street, with the tram passing an ornate fountain

1896–1918 · postcard

The Bishop's Court at Novi Sad, with a New Year greeting

1896–1918 · postcard

Winter View Down Main Street Toward the Church, 1898

by December 1898 · postcard

Main Street on Market Day, Cabs Gathered by the Epiphany Cross

1900s

Market day in Zmaj Jovina before the Bishop's Palace

1900–1918 · postcard

The Epiphany Cross on Kossuth Lajos Street

1901–1910

Main Street, the Candelabra Lamp Post by Momirovits Shop, 1909

by April 1909 · postcard

Kossuth Lajos Street, with the electric tram

1910

The Serbian Bishop's Palace, a Vendor by the Memorial Cross

1910. · postcard

The Serbian Bishop's Palace, a Striped Awning Over the Market

by May 1910 · postcard

An Electric Tram Passes the Epiphany Cross on Novi Sad's Main Street

1910

Bishop's Palace and Orthodox church

1910s

Two trams at the palace corner

1910s

The Serbian Orthodox Bishop's Palace

1911

Kossuth Lajos Street, the church spire and a stone monument

by June 1911 · postcard

Down Kossuth street to the palace

1911–1918

Electric Tram at the Bishop's Court, Novi Sad

1911-1918 · postcard

A tram passing the Serbian bishop's palace

1911–1918

The Serbian Bishop's Court, Novi Sad, a Policeman Directing Traffic

1911–1918 · postcard

An Austrian Military Band Before the Bishop's Palace

1914

Coloured card with a tram at the kerb

1914

Kossuth Lajos Street, Market Carts and Cafe Tables by the Column

by September 1915 · postcard

Vladičin Dvor, the Bishop's Court, Down a Shopping Street

1918–1929 · postcard

Screened by full-grown trees, Bishop's Palace, Novi Sad, 1919–1941

A Novi Sad street corner near Vladičin dvor

1919–1941 · postcard

Vladičin dvor, the Bishop's Court

1919–1941 · postcard

Srpska Trgovačka Banka, King Peter Street

1920s

The Bishop's Palace and the cathedral tower

1930s

Milica Varicak and her aunt on the square

circa 1939

The stone cross in the foreground

1940

Novi Sad in Nine Views: City Hall, Banovina Palace and Riverfront

1941–1945 · postcard

The Bishop's Palace from Zmaj Jovina Street, Novi Sad, 1942

1942

Nine Views: Town Hall, a Colonnaded Building and the Fortress

by August 1943 · postcard

About this place

The oldest surviving public monument in Novi Sad. A cross of pink marble about five metres high, dating from the second half of the eighteenth century. It stood out in the roadway at the crossing of what are now Zmaj Jovina and Svetozara Miletića, beside the former Sava Vuković well, on a pedestal carrying an oval relief and inside an iron railing with lamps at its corners. It was damaged in the bombardment of 1849 and restored by Marija Trandafil in 1867. The cross has stood in three places, and which one a photograph shows will date the photograph. It stood at the crossroads from the later eighteenth century until 1910, when it was moved because the tram tracks were being laid through its position. From 1910 to 1957 it stood in front of the Bishop's Palace, at the head of the same street. Since 1957 it has stood in the courtyard of St George's Cathedral. So a picture with the cross at the crossroads is from before 1910, and one with it before the palace falls between 1910 and 1957. The whole journey is a little over a hundred metres northward along a single street. It is easily confused with the Holy Trinity Column, which stood on the main square and has its own entry here. The column was far larger, roughly 15 to 20 metres against this cross's five, and it never moved. In a photograph, this cross stands inside an iron railing with corner lamps, its pedestal carries a plain oval medallion, and its top is a bare crucifix. The column has no railing, and carries clouds, cherub heads, standing statues at its corners and garland swags, with a cross at its apex, which at a distance can read as a second small monument further off.