Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Belgrade

On one of the peripheral hills towards Zvezdara, close to Crveni krst, between the Bregalnička and Pop Stojanova Street, stands a very unusual church in Belgrade. In the Catholic Church community – parish in 1925 the friary of Franciscan order of the Bosnian province was founded. The church was dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, and it was built between 1929 and 1932 in the memory of 700 years from his death. The follower of Saint Franja Asiški and a great preacher, one of the most respected western Christian saints, originating from Lisbon, where he lived by the end of the twelfth and in the first half of the thirteenth century, rests in Italian town Padua. The design of this Belgrade church was made by a prominent Slovenian and Central European architect of the late 19th and the first ha

Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Belgrade

On one of the peripheral hills towards Zvezdara, close to Crveni krst, between the Bregalnička and Pop Stojanova Street, stands a very unusual church in Belgrade. In the Catholic Church community – parish in 1925 the friary of Franciscan order of the Bosnian province was founded. The church was dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, and it was built between 1929 and 1932 in the memory of 700 years from his death. The follower of Saint Franja Asiški and a great preacher, one of the most respected western Christian saints, originating from Lisbon, where he lived by the end of the twelfth and in the first half of the thirteenth century, rests in Italian town Padua. The design of this Belgrade church was made by a prominent Slovenian and Central European architect of the late 19th and the first ha