After the defeat at the Battle of Kosovo (1398), the Orthodox and mostly Serbian population of the Balkans began fleeing north en masse from the Turks and founded their ecclesiastical and secular communities there, primarily in the towns along the Danube \u2013 from Zemun to Gy\u0151r. The same process was repeated in 1690, when during the “Great Migration of the Serbs” more than 40,000 families again fled from the Turks to the Danube towns of Hungary. The time of their settlement in Kom\u00e1rno can be estimated from the inscription of a period wax seal of the parish dated 17 May 1511. The history of the 500-year-old parish is very rich, vibrant, and above all interesting. Over the centuries they were forced to rebuild their church several times. Among the faithful were many successful merchants, military leaders, and court purveyors. At the end of the 1600s, the centre of the entire Serbian Orthodox Church was here for a short time. In the mid-18th century Gavrilo Venclovi\u0107, a renowned preacher, writer, and icon painter, served here as a clergyman; the great Serbian historian and archimandrite of Kovilj, Jovan Raji\u0107, also studied here at the lyceum. Monks from the Serbian monastery of Hilandar on Mount Athos played an important role in the spiritual life. Over the centuries the parish acquired a great many valuable devotional objects and liturgical furnishings, some of which were exhibited at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 and in Paris in 1900.<\/p>\n
The present church was built in the Late Baroque style in 1753\u20131790. The iconostasis, characteristic of Eastern Christian churches, which separates the altar from the nave, dates from that period (1775) and is richly decorated in the Rococo style; among its icons the most valuable are the main icons of the basic row, which come from the previous church of 1660. The pews (stalls) surrounding the nave are very precious and were purchased by the parish at an auction from the Camaldolese monastery in Majkpuszta (Hungary). The artistic carvings of the pew ensemble are the work of Franz Xaver Seegen, a sculptor from Vienna, from 1763. Also noteworthy in the nave are the icon stands and the bishop’s throne, stylistically similar to the iconostasis, as well as the embroidered Pla\u0161\u010danica (1693) and the icon of the altar of oblation (1660) in the sanctuary. In the courtyard, to the left of the side entrance, stands the tomb of General and Knight Davidovi\u0107, while on the right is the tomb of the tabular judge and grain merchant J\u00e1n Domonkos, whose person served the Hungarian writer J\u00f3kai as a model for the main character of the novel The Man of Gold.<\/p>\n
At the end of the 1960s a museum was set up in the church, but since 1998 it has once again served for religious services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":381,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[],"kategoria-programov":[108],"obec":[115],"class_list":["post-1485","zaujimavost","type-zaujimavost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategoria-programov-with-culture","obec-komarno"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zaujimavost\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zaujimavost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/zaujimavost"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"kategoria-programov","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategoria-programov?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"obec","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obec?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}