Svetozar Ivačković (

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: Светозар Ивачковић) (December 10, 1844 – January 30, 1924) was a distinguished post- Romantic

architect; the most famous representative of the first epoch of the Serbian-Byzantine architectural revival in Serbia. He, like many Serbian architects of his time, was educated in

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, then the centre of contemporary 19th century

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. Ivačković's finest work, according to Pravoslavlje, the official magazine of the

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, are the church of

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, built in 1877, and

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the Wonderworker church, located at the New Cemetery, better known as Novo Groblje, in Belgrade, built in 1893, thanks to the Draginja and

Stanojlo Petrović Stanojlo Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Станојло Петровић; 13 February 1813 – 1893) was a Serbian officer, court secretary, advisor, and adjutant to both Prince Miloš Obrenović and his son Mihailo Obrenović III. Petrović and ...

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