Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Belgrade

The Alexander Nevsky Church (Serbian: Hram Svetog Aleksandra Nevskog / Црква Светог Александра Невског ) is a Serbian Orthodox church in the Serbian capital Belgrade was built in the Morava school style. It is located in Dorćol district in the municipality of Stari Grad. Like all Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and churches it is named after the Russian National Saint Alexander Nevsky Yaroslavich. The church belongs to archeparchy of Belgrade and Karlovci of the Serbian Orthodox Church

A first church was built in 1877, but the plan for a larger church was raised in 1912. As an architect Jelisaveta Načić was chosen. The foundation was consecrated in 1912, but construction was delayed due to the First World War, so that the end of construction in 1928 or 1929.

The icons of the church was painted in 1930 in the workshop of the Russian artist Boris Seljank. The marble iconostasis was founded the same year by the Yugoslav King Alexander I, had been previously planned, however they give to the mausoleum on the Oplenac. In the chancel there are monuments of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the Yugoslav King Alexander I and monuments to the soldiers who had died in the wars of liberation against the Ottomans 1876-1918. Today's wall painting was created 1970-1972 by Hieromonachus Naum Andrić by Secco painting.

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