Patriarchate Court
Palace of the Karlovci patriarchs, housing a church museum of icons, portraits and treasury objects.
The Patriarchate Court was built between 1892 and 1895 to designs by the architect Vladimir Nikolić for Patriarch Georgije Branković, and dominates the main square of Sremski Karlovci. Nikolić worked in a manner drawn from Italian Renaissance palaces, with a richly modelled brick and stone façade, carved lions flanking the entrance and a domed chapel set above the central gate. The ground plan is said to trace the Cyrillic letter S, a reference to the Serbian church whose administration the building served.
Sremski Karlovci was the seat of the Metropolitanate and later the Patriarchate of Karlovci, and the court remained the effective headquarters of the Serbian Orthodox Church until 1930. Part of the building is open as a church museum, displaying icons and liturgical objects of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, portraits of metropolitans and patriarchs, rare manuscripts and early printed books, and items gathered from churches elsewhere in the former Habsburg lands. Paja Jovanović's large canvas The Migration of the Serbs hangs here.
Highlights
- Italianate palace of 1895 by the architect Vladimir Nikolić
- Church museum of icons, vestments and treasury objects
- Portrait gallery of Karlovci metropolitans and patriarchs
- Paja Jovanović's painting The Migration of the Serbs
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