THE (SERBIAN) ORTHODOX CHURCH OF HOLY ARCHANGEL MICHAEL IN SENTA

Intro

The Senta Orthodox Church was built in 1751 and is dedicated to St. Archangel Michael, and this is also the Saint's Day of the church. The church is in the basis a rectangle, a single-nave basilica with a five-corner apse, rectangular choir and shallow transept. The iconostasis was made in 1782, the work of Ivan Isajlovic senior.  Between 1851 and 1856, the iconostasis were restored by master carvers Mihajlo Janjić and Jovan Ajsterlener, both from Arad. The icons in the church are the work of the famous formally trained painter Pavle Simić, created between 1859 and 1862. The Orthodox Church is the oldest building in Senta and under protection as a cultural monument. From the old iconostasis, two Isajlović's altar icons remain. One depicts Jesus Christ (oil on wood), and the other represents "The Coronation of the Virgin" (oil on canvas). In the second ceiling of the main part of the church, two oil compositions were discovered, works of Ivan Isajlović senior (oil on plaster), "Jesus Christ before Caiphas" and "Jesus Christ before Annas and Caiphas" were discovered.

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