The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord ( hr, Hram Uznesenja Gospodnjeg, sr-Cyrl, Храм Вазнесења Господњег) in Trpinja is a

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church in eastern

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. The first church on this site dates from 1753.Trpinja
Eparhija Osjeckopoljska-Baranjska (in Croatian); accessed 2012-02-01 The first Orthodox Serbs moved into Trpinja in 1527. From 1573 the Serbian Orthodox community has been the majority population. The church is listed in

Register of Cultural Goods of Croatia The Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia ( hr, Registar kulturnih dobara Republike Hrvatske) has been established in 1999. The Croatian Ministry of Culture is responsible for the administration of this public register, which has be ...

and last renovation was completed in 2011.

History

The older church at the site of the present day building was mentioned for the first time in 1695. The description of the church from 1733 mentioned that the lower part of the wall was built of stone, while the rest of it was made of wood, covered with mud covered with oak shingles. The building was consecrated by Nikanor Melentijević. The modern day building was completed in the mid XVIII century and it was consecrated by Sofronije Jovanović. Thirteen years after the new building was completed, there was six Eastern Orthodox priests at the church parish in Trpinja. Parish center was built in 1908. During

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and the

Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj, separator=" / ", Геноцид над Србима у Независној Држави Хрватској) was the sys ...

, the church was converted into a

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church while the Đakovo-Osijek priest Stjepan Rade administered

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History

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