# Epiphany Cross

Also called: Bogojavljenski krst, Vízkereszt-kereszt, Epiphaniaskreuz.

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.

## Pictures (40)

- [Main Street at the Epiphany Cross](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/cb7e3cd99b1a/index.md), circa 1880
- [The Epiphany Cross toward the Name of Mary Church](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/aeca60be8550/index.md), 1895–1909
- [Duna Street, with the tram passing an ornate fountain](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/75e0ca6093b4/index.md), 1896–1918
- [Main Street and the Bishop's Palace](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/47782105bbf7/index.md), 1896–1918
- [Market day on Main Street toward the Name of Mary church](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/38eca0edd0fe/index.md), 1896–1918
- [The Bishop's Court at Novi Sad, with a New Year greeting](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/d5c3cc3c21e7/index.md), 1896–1918
- [The Main Street, Novi Sad, with Market Stalls](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/583fbfde26e3/index.md), 1896–1918
- [The Wayside Cross by the Bishop's Court, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/1bd845485480/index.md), 1896–1918
- [Winter View Down Main Street Toward the Church, 1898](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/992c6292c8a0/index.md), by December 1898
- [Main Street on Market Day, Cabs Gathered by the Epiphany Cross](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/d1c0ec9e6e50/index.md), 1900s
- [Market day in Zmaj Jovina before the Bishop's Palace](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/05cb115cbdff/index.md), 1900–1918
- [The Epiphany Cross on Kossuth Lajos Street](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/d0ed5372fc0e/index.md), 1901–1910
- [Main Street, the Candelabra Lamp Post by Momirovits Shop, 1909](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/076dd2a1bcce/index.md), by April 1909
- [An Electric Tram Passes the Epiphany Cross on Novi Sad's Main Street](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f4f94a90e6d8/index.md), 1910
- [Bishop's Palace and Orthodox church](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/4590e9ef66df/index.md), 1910s
- [Kossuth Lajos Street, with the electric tram](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/04204f9471e7/index.md), 1910
- [Market day on the Main Street](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/087dd0359301/index.md), 1910
- [The Serbian Bishop's Palace, a Striped Awning Over the Market](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/99dfe34ef713/index.md), by May 1910
- [The Serbian Bishop's Palace, a Vendor by the Memorial Cross](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/107b9ade6cdf/index.md), 1910.
- [Two trams at the palace corner](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/921e67b82de6/index.md), 1910s
- [A tram passing the Serbian bishop's palace](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/da6acd967a06/index.md), 1911–1918
- [Down Kossuth street to the palace](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/1ff9ca04f91f/index.md), 1911–1918
- [Electric Tram at the Bishop's Court, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/70d4f8c0cd3b/index.md), 1911-1918
- [Kossuth Lajos Street, the church spire and a stone monument](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/b8701b83dc08/index.md), by June 1911
- [The Serbian Bishop's Court, Novi Sad, a Policeman Directing Traffic](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/decbb306582b/index.md), 1911–1918
- [The Serbian Orthodox Bishop's Palace](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/7025275e6531/index.md), 1911
- [An Austrian Military Band Before the Bishop's Palace](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/261aea647f5a/index.md), 1914
- [Coloured card with a tram at the kerb](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/c7f6638b9305/index.md), 1914
- [Kossuth Lajos Street, Market Carts and Cafe Tables by the Column](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/06edca306e94/index.md), by September 1915
- [Vladičin Dvor, the Bishop's Court, Down a Shopping Street](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/b29e69568260/index.md), 1918–1929
- [A Novi Sad street corner near Vladičin dvor](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f3e088844143/index.md), 1919–1941
- [Screened by full-grown trees](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/2f342767ba68/index.md), 1919–1941
- [Vladičin dvor, the Bishop's Court](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f8940dd40bd9/index.md), 1919–1941
- [Srpska Trgovačka Banka, King Peter Street](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/7cf6fcdc9bff/index.md), 1920s
- [The Bishop's Palace and the cathedral tower](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/b61b43d07df4/index.md), 1930s
- [Milica Varicak and her aunt on the square](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/2ad9b87e7aa5/index.md), circa 1939
- [The stone cross in the foreground](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/02a3caeacbfd/index.md), 1940
- [Novi Sad in Nine Views: City Hall, Banovina Palace and Riverfront](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/72d35dbdb08a/index.md), 1941–1945
- [The Bishop's Palace from Zmaj Jovina Street, Novi Sad, 1942](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/9173c3d24b9b/index.md), 1942
- [Nine Views: Town Hall, a Colonnaded Building and the Fortress](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/4291883789a1/index.md), by August 1943

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