Saint Sava Church - Global Citizenship Summer School (sitios de interés)

The Cathedral of Saint Sava or sometimes referred to as Temple of Saint Sava is the great Orthodox Church located in the heart of Belgrade, Serbia, by the Danube. It is the biggest Orthodox Church in the world. In Serbian, the building is called “Hram/ Храм”, which means temple.

Saint Sava (1174 - 1236) was a Serbian Prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the Serbian Church and the founder of Serbian law and literature.

In 1595, after a Serbian uprising against the Ottoman control, Ottoman Turks burnt Saint Sava’s remaining. Exactly 300 years after that, in 1895, Serbian community founded “the Society for the Construction of the Cathedral of Saint Sava on Vračar” in central Belgrade. The main aim of this foundation was to build a cathedral on the place of the burning dedicated to Saint Sava. The construction only started 40 years after the main idea of the cathedral, in 1935.  The construction of the cathedral was interrupted by the 1941 bombing of Belgrade, and the German Occupation during the Second World War and finally by the Red Army and Partisans in 1944.

With its tall and beautiful domes, and its fascinating interior design, the Cathedral of Saint Sava now stands as one of the most important landmarks of Serbia along the Danube.