THE CHURCH OF ST. SAVA – Maradik

The Serbian Orthodox Church dedicated to St. Sava was built in baroque style, in 1776. It represents one of the most prominent buildings in the village. It was built in the middle of the 19th century, when the church municipality made a contract with the building constructor Uroš Subotić (1844.). It is a one-nave building with the pent prism altar apse in the eastern side and a build-on bell tower in the western side. The church is plastered on the inside and on the outside. Present beautifully carved iconostasis was painted in the second half of the 18th century by Teodor Ilić Češljar, one of the most famous painters of Serbian baroque and rococo. Inside the church there are a number of icons carved in the wood dating from 1816, while the tablecloths used for the churching service were printed in Moscow during the second part of the 19th century. During the first half of the 18th century, on the place of today‘s church there was a church made of wood and covered by reed. Among numerous church books, there is also one from the time of the Russian Empress Kathrin II.

The church has been proclaimed a cultural monument of great importance in 1980, and the categorization was done in 1991.