Church_of_St._George,_Tovarnik

Church of St. George, Tovarnik

Church of St. George, Tovarnik

Church in Tovarnik, Croatia


The Church of St. George (Croatian: Crkva svetog Georgija,[2][3] Serbian Cyrillic: Црква Светог Ђорђа) in Tovarnik is a Serbian Orthodox church in eastern Croatia built in 1799.[2] Together with the Orthodox church in Ilok and Church of the Holy Venerable Mother Parascheva, it is under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Eparchy of Srem with the seat in Sremski Karlovci, contrary to most of the other Serbian Orthodox churches in eastern Croatia that are under the Eparchy of Osječko polje and Baranja.[4][5]

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History

The Church of St. George was built in 1799. At the end of World War II, after the fall of Nazi and Ustaša forces on the Syrmian Front, a group of 51 local ethnic Danube Swabians and Croats were killed on the church ground by Yugoslav Partisans.[6] In 2012, unknown perpetrators broke the church's windows by hitting stones at them during the night.[3]

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References

  1. "Šidsko arhijerejsko namesništo". Eparchy of Srem. Archived from the original on 22 January 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. "Tovarnik". www.enciklopedija.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. Ličina, Đorđe (21 July 2012). "Pokrajine Broj 657". www.portalnovosti.com (in Croatian). Novosti (Croatia). Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  4. "OBLJETNICA: U Tovarniku obilježena 68. obljetnica stradanja Hrvata i Nijemaca" (in Croatian). 7 December 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

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