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Miroslav Lazić
Belgrade
Orthodox Cathedral Church in Požarevac
in the Light of Archive Sources
The text, in the light of the archive sources, chronologically observes the morphological
development of the Orthodox Cathedral church in Požarevac while
simultaneously revealing the subjects that greatly contributed to its formal structuring.
Having been founded and built in 1819 due to the initiative of Prince
Miloš, the temple of Požarevac, in accordance with the social, political and cultural
changes, has gone through some significant transformations over the course
of time. Therefore, the simple sacral edifice, put up as a one-nave longitudinal
building, covered with the two-layered roof, was changed a lot in the mid 19th century with the construction of its belfry, which considerably altered the original
architectural concept of the temple. The temple model was taken over from
the Karlovci metropolitan model, in the entire Principality of Serbia being best
represented by the Orthodox Cathedral church in Belgrade, the Belgrade metropolitan
cathedral temple posing at the same time as the desired ideal within the
highest ecclesiastical hierarchy as well as with the then political and cultural elite.
Although the belfry construction of the Požarevac temple meant the winding up
of its architectural formulation, the final phase of its morphological shaping was
the mounting of the representative western stone portal dominated by the neo-
Moravian style elements. Just like the architectural concept of this Požarevac
temple, the shaping and decoration of its interior design had a similar developing
path. Judging by the preserved sources, the interior decoration of Orthodox Cathedral
church in Požarevac was originally in agreement with the liturgical and
ceremonial service practice and tradition of ornamenting the temples throughout
the wider Balkans territory under the jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Nevertheless, the previous interior modelling concept was gradually being abandoned
from the fifth decade of the 19th century in order to accept the new ideally
constituted one after the current liturgical manuals – applied for the first time
in the Orthodox Cathedral church in Belgrade. Albeit the new concept was basically
accepted during the fifth decade, its final constituting took place only later
– by the end of the sixties with the setting up of the new iconostasis, the piece of
work made by the painting workshop of Milija and Nikola Marković. The placing
of this iconostasis, which formally fitted in well with the rest of the church movable
assets, signified that a unique interior structure was established and it has
not been considerably changed hitherto.
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