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24: 424: 326: 121: 363: 382:, the harmonious and proportionate Gothic building ( with the chapels ) was, with minor interventions, turned into the Orthodox oratory. The eastern aisle, trigonously completed, was renovated and converted into the altar area of appropriate size. Without a doubt, the original iconostasis in the obtained church was a low altar screen with a small number of icons brought from 375:
isolated belfry on the east side, built of hewn stone, is now preserved in the ground and first floors. Its basic size ( 7,40 X 7,20 m ), the thickness of its walls about 2,50 m and a small usable area indicate the depth of its foundations to two meters and its height of about 50 meters with a narrow pyramidal cap on top.
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There is a possibility that in the years around the half of the 16th century the parish church was transformed into the monastery. There is no direct evidence for this conclusion, but in the Turkish census of 1546 three monks and a priest were recorded in Serbian Kovin, that indicates the possibility
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The wall paintings in the Church of the Dormition of Mother of God and its two chapels in Serbian Kovin were painted by artists led by Teodor Simeonov from Moshopolis. The contracts that the master signed with the purchasers of the paintings are also preserved. Since the church is done in the Gothic
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On the foundations of an earlier, probably collapsed tower, there was built the Baroque part of the bell tower in 1756 in two floor level with the high decorative cap on top. Together with the earlier levels the belfry has a ground floor, three floors and a cap of timber coated with copper sheeting.
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style building of rectangular base shape, dimensions of about 10 x 25 meters and with a useful floor area of about 175 m2. In the massive hewn stone walls, about 90 cm thick, there were two portals, nine two-part windows and 16 supporting pillars. Approximately from the same period dates the
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in Banat. Today's iconostasis with a smaller number of icons dates from 1770. Only four main icons were painted earlier, in 1746, and present the work of unknown Russian and Ukrainian masters. Other icons, including those in unusual places below the main ones, belong to the masters from
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that, along with the church, the monastery was already there. The (so far) reliable data from 1680 confirms the existence of the monastery on the island of Csepel. As part of the reduction of the monasteries in the time of
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says that the church was painted three times – in 1320 ( of which there are no surviving traces ), then in 1514 ( as for those paintings one can see only a fragment of the image of
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and Serbian church painting placing them in the Gothic divided sections of the walls. The whole main church as well as the chapels, from the ground up to the top of the Gothic
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under the parts of plaster from 1765 that fell off ) and the last time in 1765. The inscription above the southern door leading from the church into the chapel of
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the Blind is mentioned as the founder of the monastery. At the time when the monastery was founded Hungary was being ruled by Helena instead of her underage son,
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church with chapels and bell tower, and with it, presumably, the corresponding part of the royal landholdings. From that time on, there is on Csepel, Upper (
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According to a preserved tradition, often neglected, this monastery has a medieval heritage and appeared in the first half of the 12th century.
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in the south wall, in the doorpost of the passage between the chapel of St. John the Baptist and the main church, painted in 1765, in which
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Jedna neuobičajena tema u srpskom slikarstvu – Bogorodica između Joakima i Ane u crkvi Uspenja Bogorodice u Srpskom Kovinu
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is 14,30 m while the overall height is 40,40 meters. Observed in the context of the Serbian Baroque architecture, the
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The height of the masonry part of the belfry is 26,10 m, the height of the decorative cap (with the
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Josif Stanojević, moved to the monastery of Grabovac and the Serbian Kovin church was turned into a
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style, the iconographer faced a difficult task to develop the scenes in the manner of the old
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Initially, at the end of the 13th century, the church was a larger one-nave
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In the time after the year of 1440, after the church had been given to the
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belongs to the group of rare towers completely separated from the church.
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The inscription on a bronze plate embedded into the southern wall of the
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and all surrounding villages. Those who escaped moved to the inland of
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St. Unmercenary Physicians and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian
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in Hungary again gained the status of the monastery, led by
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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Index


Order
Serbian Orthodox
The Dormition of Mother of God
Diocese
Queen Helena
Raška Uroš I
Ráckeve
Hungary
Coordinates
47°09′38″N 18°56′35″E / 47.1605°N 18.9430°E / 47.1605; 18.9430
Hungarian
Ráckeve
Hungary
monasteries
Diocese
Serbian Orthodox Church
Budapest
Csepel
Ráckeve
Serbian
Queen Helena
Raška Uroš I
Bela II
Geza II
Turks
Smederevo Fortress
Danube
Kovin
Hungary

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