The Name of Mary Church (Serbian

Serbian language

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 and Croatian

Croatian language

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: Crkva imena Marijinog, ) is a Roman Catholic church named after Virgin Mary. It is in the capital of Serbia

Serbia

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n province of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

, Novi Sad

Novi Sad

Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....

. Locals refer to it as the "Catholic cathedral", or just "cathedral", even though the actual cathedral

Cathedral

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 (bishop's seat) is located in Subotica

Subotica

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.

The church was built on the foundation of an old Roman Catholic church, which was damaged during Revolution of 1848. This church was not restored correctly, so Catholics from Novi Sad decided to build a new church. It was finished in the end of the 19th century, in 1894 by architect Georg Molnar. The church is a three-nave building, with gothic

Gothic architecture

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 arches. The altar is made of carved wood from Tyrol

Tyrol (state)

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, the windows with stained glass from Budapest

Budapest

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 and the roof tiles were made of Zsolnay

Zsolnay

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 ceramics. It is the highest church in Bačka

Backa

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 region and dominates the city center

Stari Grad, Novi Sad

Stari Grad is a neighborhood of the city of Novi Sad in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the main part of Novi Sad, and it is also known as City Centre...

 of Novi Sad.

See also

• Religious architecture in Novi Sad
  Religious architecture in Novi Sad
  Religious architecture in Novi Sad is very diverse. Majority of the believers in Novi Sad are from Serbian Orthodox Church, while others are from Roman Catholic Church, many Protestant churches, and Jewish community...