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An Art Deco Building, a Horse Cart and Bicycle Below, Novi Sad

1919–1941 · postcard

A Modern Functionalist Building, Novi Sad

1919–1941 · postcard

King Alexander National Home, The Sokol Hall, Novi Sad, 1938

The Park Hotel baths, Liberation Square and the Memorial Hall

by May 1941 · postcard

The Levente Otthon, Formerly the Sokol Hall, Novi Sad

1941–1944

Four Views of Novi Sad: the Banovina Tower and a V-Marked Building

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad: a cinema, the Cathedral and the Banovina Palace tower

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad in Four Views: the Banovina Palace Tower, Tobacco Wholesaler

1941–1945 · postcard

Five Views: Aircraft Over the River and the Church Tower

by May 1942 · postcard

Youth House, The Sokol Hall, Novi Sad, 1942

Seven Views Framing the Church Tower at Centre

by March 1944 · postcard

Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on the Town Hall, 1944

by February 1944 · postcard

About this place

The Sokol hall was built between 1934 and 1936 to a design by Đorđe Tabaković, at the request of the Novi Sad chapter of the Sokol gymnastic movement, and counts among the most important modernist buildings of his career. It was dedicated as the King Alexander I National Home, the name printed across postcards of 1938, and it came about largely through the work of Ignjat Pavlas, head of the Bačka Sokol district, whose name the street now carries. Behind the brick and glass front lay a gymnasium, changing rooms with baths, a large hall for performances and assemblies, meeting rooms, a space set aside for a Sokol museum and a restaurant in the basement, with a sports ground laid out alongside at the same time. During the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944 the cards relabel it Levente-otthon, the home of the Levente youth corps, and the building now holds the Youth Theatre, the oldest puppet theatre in Serbia.

The Sokol Hall

Images14

An Art Deco Building, a Horse Cart and Bicycle Below, Novi Sad

A Modern Functionalist Building, Novi Sad

King Alexander National Home

Down the tree-lined boulevard

The Park Hotel baths, Liberation Square and the Memorial Hall

The Levente Otthon, Formerly the Sokol Hall, Novi Sad

Four Views of Novi Sad: the Banovina Tower and a V-Marked Building

Novi Sad: a cinema, the Cathedral and the Banovina Palace tower

Novi Sad in Four Views: the Banovina Palace Tower, Tobacco Wholesaler

Five Views: Aircraft Over the River and the Church Tower

Youth House

The Levente Home

Seven Views Framing the Church Tower at Centre

Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on the Town Hall, 1944