Jovan Cvijić's house - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Jovan Cvijić's house - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Jovan Cvijić's houseI.Sretenović, Jovan Cvijić`s house, Cultural Heritage Protection Institution of the City of Belgrade, 2013. is situated in Belgrade, in 5 Jelena Ćetković Street. The house was built in 1905, on the site of the former garden of Мitropolit MihailoMetropolitan of Belgrade Michael (1859 – 1881;1889 -1898), was one of the most prominent figures of the Serbian political scene in the second half of the 19th century; being the student of the Kiev spiritual academy, he dedicated the special attention to the role and the importance of the genuine monkhood, national interests and the education of the clergy, by writing a large number of text books; ...he was considered as the „father of the new theological science and Serbian literature“; he was buried in the Saborna church, in 1898. of Belgrade, which in 1907 was transformed into the square. A couple of years later, more precisely in 1924, the square was named Коpitareva gradina,Кopitareva gradina occupies the space between the following streets: Jelena Ćetković Street, Đura Daničić Street, Kopitareva gradina, Šafarikova Street, Džordž Vašington Street from Jelena Ćetković Street to Đura Daničić Street, left front of Hilandarska Street, and the oldest houses built until 1914. As the spatial cultural and historical whole, of the special ambient which preserved the values inherited from the beginning of the 20th century Belgrade, it was declared to be the cultural monument back in 1968, according to the Decision of the Cultural Heritage Protection Institute of the City of Belgrade; ULUS: Vladeta Petrić, 1974. after the famous Slavist and linguist, Јеrnej Kopitar. Many important figures of that time used to build their houses in this area: a sculptor Petar Pavličanin, a doctor and a writer Laza Lazarević, an architect Milan Antonović . Read more on Wikipedia
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