Church of Holy Salvation, Vrlika
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| The Church of Holy Salvation (Croatian Crkva Sv. Spasa) is a church in inland of Dalmatian Zagora, in Split-Dalmatia county, Croatia.
Church exact location is in small village of Cetina, on spring of river Cetina, 8 km northwest from the town of Vrlika. In the 9th century probably during the time of Duke Branimir of Dalmatian Croatia, the old Croatian Catholic Church of Holy Salvation "Crkva Sv. Spasa" was built near Vrlika, then called Vrh Rike. It is one of the oldest and best preserved monuments of the early Croatian sacral architecture. This church is one of the most important in Croatia, as it is the pre-schism church constructed with a bell tower which is still standing. Its was a large stone church for that period. The church is a one-longitudinal-nave structure with a sanctuary consisting of three apses, in the form of a trefoil. Later, the middle apse was pulled down and substituted by a bigger, rectangular one. The church has strong semi-circular buttresses that give a feeling of fortification, emphasized with mighty bell-tower positioned in front of entrance. Church was built by old Croatian Gostiha of Cetina "Cetinski zupan Gastika" in memory of his mother and his sons. During the excavation work, several architectural fragments and pieces of stone furnishings adorned with "pleter" (interlacery ornaments-meaning to weed) have been found. The most important is the fragment of a beam with semiuncial inscriptions from it is known that the church had been dedicated to Christ and built on the order of the prefect Gastika, the son of Nemira. There are over 1,026 old croatian graves around the church of great archeological interest. Several tombs have been found in the church itself, most of which (more than 800) originally had stelae. Culture of that time was under the influence of the Frankish Empire, which is noticed in the archeological findings from the period and the structure of the church. In the early 15th century when Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic (Kotor around 1350 – 1416) Ban of Croatia, Grand Duke of Bosnia and a Herzog of Split strengthen Prozor Fortress, most of inhabitants moved from Vrh Rika to Vrlika, under the protection of the fortress. After 1492, and invasion by the Ottoman Empire, church was badly damaged and remaining inhabitants left to Vrlika or further. From 17th century new inhabitants from Bosnia (Ottoman Muslim, Serbian Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Croatian Greek Catholic) settle in the area near the church. Most of them where Orthodox, which graves are today mixed with old Croatian graves.. Read more about Church of Holy Salvation on the official pages.(In Croatian) See Wikipedia entry for Church of Holy Salvation. Find Church of Holy Salvation on GoogleMaps. Image published together with: Author: Sergio Gobbo |
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