The Church of the Holy Annunciation (
Serbian: Црква Светог благовјештења,
romanized: Crkva Svetog blagovještenja;
Croatian: Crkva svetih Blagovijesti) is a
Serbian Orthodox church in
Dubrovnik, south
Croatia. It was built in 1877.
History
The first demand to built an Orthodox church in the city came when in February 1770
Count Orlov's fleet, on a mission to encourage revolt in
Greece, confiscated Dubrovnik's ships which were transporting Ottoman reinforcements near
Nafplio.[3] In 1775 it was agreed that
Russian Empire will send its consul to Dubrovnik and that he will build an Orthodox chapel in the garden of the Russian consulate.[3]
On April 30, 1867, in the Municipal Assembly, rich trader
Božo Bošković bought three houses of baron
Frano Gondola with a garden behind them for a sum of 28,500 fiorins inside the
Walls of Dubrovnik in the old town.[4]
The church has a valuable collection of icons, some of them dating from the 15th and 16th centuries.[5][6]
A comprehensive history of the church and its parish entitled The Serbian Orthodox Church in Dubrovnik to the Twentieth Century was published in
Dubrovnik, Belgrade and in
Trebinje in 2007.[7][8] The book was published in the
Gaj's Latin and the
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet[9]
The church owns a library of about 12 000 books. In addition to liturgical books in
Church Slavonic language, there are also books on different themes in Italian, French, Russian and other languages. Of note are a
New Testament printed in
Kiev in 1703 and a
Menologium printed in
Kiev in 1757 [5]
^Spasić, Goran; Reljić, Jelica; Perišić, Miroslav (2012). Kultura Srba u Dubrovniku 1790-2010 iz riznice Srpske pravoslavne crkve Svetog blagoveštenja. Beograd: Arhiv Srbije.
^Spasić, Goran; Reljić, Jelica; Perišić, Miroslav (2012). Kultura Srba u Dubrovniku 1790-2010 iz riznice Srpske pravoslavne crkve Svetog blagoveštenja. Beograd: Arhiv Srbije.