The Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel ( sr, црква св. Арханђела Михаила и Гаврила - ''crkva sv. Arhanđela Mihaila i Gavrila''), also known as the Old Orthodox Church, 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
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* C ...
in
Sarajevo
Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...
. It was established in 1539.
It was, however, built on older foundations.
See also
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Serbs in Sarajevo
The Serbs of Sarajevo numbered 157,526 according to the 1991 census, making up more than 30% of the Sarajevo Metropolitan area (10 pre-war municipalities; Centar, Stari Grad, Novo Sarajevo, Novi Grad, Ilidza, Ilijas, Vogosca, Hadzici, Trnovo, and P ...
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Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
External links
Dabro-Bosnian MetropolitanateMuzej Stare pravoslavne crkve u Sarajevu: Među pet u svijetu
- Al Jazeera
Serbian Orthodox church buildings in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbian Orthodox churches in Sarajevo
Stari Grad, Sarajevo
16th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina architecture
Baščaršija
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