THE
BISHOP COURT
FROM THE
BAROQUE ERA
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Vršac,
an old Medieval town, the business center of the region and the seat of the
Banat Eparchy, founded in the second half of the 16th century, is one of the
centers of Serbian people's spirituality, political and cultural events. The
Banat Bishops Residence, which the Bishop Jovan Đorđević had constructed in
accordance with a design of an unknown Prussian architect, upon the removal
of the Eparchy seat from Karansebes to Vršac, between 1750 and 1757, is a
cultural monument of an extraordinary importance. It is located in the Court
Street, in Vršac and it is the only Court of this purpose from the Baroque
era. At the ground level, there is a Court Chapel, devoted to the Saint Archangels
Mihailo and Gavrilo, with the famous iconostasis, made between 1761 and 1765.
This iconostasis, as well as the one in the Fruška Gora Grget Monastery, belongs
to the rare saved samples of the 18th century. In 1902, the Bishop Court was
reconstructed and the facade got some Neo-Baroque and Neo-Renaissance
details. There is an original furniture in the Court, a valuable library with
a book under UNESCO protection, an icon collection, as well as portraits of
the most important Bishops of the Vršac Eparchy.
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