The Saint Spyridon Church ( it, San Spiridione) 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

Peroj Peroj ( cnr, Перој) is a village in the Town of Vodnjan on the south-western coast of Istria, Croatia. Peroj originally dates back to the Copper Age of prehistory, as testified by a necropolis within the old walls of the town. The town has be ...

, Istria,

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. The permission to build an

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...

church in Peroj was granted by the

Republic of Venice The Republic of Venice ( vec, Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic ( vec, Repùblega Vèneta, links=no), traditionally known as La Serenissima ( en, Most Serene Republic of Venice, italics=yes; vec, Serenìsima Repùblega de Venèsia, ...

in 1788, 130 years after the initial settlement of the local Orthodox community. The church in its current form was completed in 1834.

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Serbian Orthodox church buildings in Croatia Churches completed in 1788 18th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings Buildings and structures in Istria County Former Roman Catholic church buildings 1788 establishments in the Republic of Venice 18th-century churches in Croatia {{Croatia-EO-church-stub

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