The Church of the Presentation of Mary ( hr, Hram prikazanja blažene djevice Marije, sr-Cyrl, Храм ваведења пресвете Богородице) in Čakovci is a

Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches. The majori ...

church in eastern

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. The first wooden church at the spot of contemporary church was constructed in 1732. The current church was completed in 1762. Despite being protected and inscribed in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia, as of 2014 the church was not reconstructed for over 100 years. The lack of preservation activities and municipal funding for the object was criticized by the local Serb minority representative from the

Independent Democratic Serb Party The Independent Democratic Serb Party ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Самостална демократска српска странка, Samostalna demokratska srpska stranka, SDSS) is a social-democratic political party in Croatia representing the intere ...

. The first organized Eastern Orthodox settlement of Čakovci occurred during the

Great Migrations of the Serbs The Great Migrations of the Serbs ( sr, Велике сеобе Срба), also known as the Great Exoduses of the Serbs, refers mainly to two large migrations of Serbs from various territories under the rule of the Ottoman Empire to regions u ...

led by

Arsenije III Crnojević Arsenije III Crnojević ( sr-cyr, Арсеније III Црнојевић; 1633 – 27 October 1706) was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1674 to his death in 1706. In 1689, during the Habsburg-Ottoman War (1683–1699), he side ...

. The historical sources imply that in the 18th century Eastern Orthodox population constituted the majority of the local population. In 1786 court cartographer Gabriel Homer marked Eastern Orthodox cemetery as being significantly larger than the Roman Catholic one. In 1847 Roman Catholic (mostly ethnic Hungarians) were again majority of the population while Eastern Orthodox constituted 195 out of 690 inhabitants. The church was inscribed into regional map in 1888 by Miloš Radeljević while for unknown reason he missed to inscribe the Roman Catholic church which was built in the village in 1828.

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{{Serbian minority institutions and organizations in Croatia Churches completed in 1762 18th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings Čakovci Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia

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