The Church of the Holy Annunciation ( sr, Црква Светог благовјештења, Crkva Svetog blagovještenja; hr, Crkva svetih Blagovijesti) is a

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church in

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, south

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. It was built in 1877.

History

On April 30, 1867, in the Municipal Assembly, rich trader Božo Bošković bought three houses of baron

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with a garden behind them for a sum of 28,500 fiorins inside the

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in the old town. The church has a valuable collection of icons, some of them dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. A comprehensive history of the church and its parish entitled ''The Serbian Orthodox Church in Dubrovnik to the Twentieth Century'' was published in

, Belgrade and in

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in 2007. The book was published in the

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and the

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Damage and reconstruction

The church sustained damage from bombing during the

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. In 2009, the church was restored using funds from the Ministry of Culture of Croatia, City of Dubrovnik,

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, private contributions and credit. This was the first restoration of the church.

Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church in Dubrovnik

The church community maintains a museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Dubrovnik. It keeps religious objects such as a copy of the

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from 1897, a gospel in Russian printed in Moscow in 1805 and busts of

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and Vuk Stefanović Karadžić The museum also has 18 portraits. Of these, 9 depict

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Other portraits depict

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Valtazar Bogišić Valtazar Bogišić ( sr-Cyrl, Валтазар Богишић; 20 December 1834 – 24 April 1908), also known as Baltazar Bogišić, was a Serbian jurist and a pioneer in sociology. In the domain of private law his most notable research was on ...

Petar II Petrović-Njegoš Petar II Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-cyrl, Петар II Петровић-Његош, ; – ), commonly referred to simply as Njegoš (), was a Prince-Bishop (''vladika'') of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered ...

and Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. A number of old gospels, big collection of

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s, highly decorated priest robes, chalices and jewellery is also kept as a part of the Museum collection.

Library of Serbian Orthodox Church in Dubrovnik

The church owns a library of about 12 000 books. In addition to liturgical books in

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, there are also books on different themes in Italian, French, Russian and other languages. Of note are a

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printed in

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in 1703 and a

Menologium Menologium (), also written menology, and menologe, is a service-book used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite. From its derivation from Greek , ''menológion'', from μήν ''m ...

printed in

in 1757

References

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History

Damage and reconstruction

Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church in Dubrovnik

Library of Serbian Orthodox Church in Dubrovnik

See also

References