Last week I visited with my friend from school the city museum to see the exhibition "Angels and Demons".
The exhibition featured Saints and Demons on the outer walls of the Roman Catholic Church in the center of Vršac, the struggle between the good part and the bad part of the world. This exhibition is the result of the first steps to restore and preserve this miraculous building for future generations.
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Gerhard de Sangredo from Vršac was built in the period of 1860-1863 and represents an immovable cultural asset as a cultural monument. The name of the architect isn't known, but it is assumed he is from Vienna.
Where can you find this magnificent church?
The church is located in the corner of today's Vuka Karadžića Street and Žarko Zrenjanin Boulevard.
The interesting part about it is that originally there was a mosque built in that exact place, which the Serbs turned into an Orthodox church in 1716 after the liberation of Vršac from the Turks .
However, in 1723 they ceded the church to the Roman Catholics.
The Catholic Church is the largest and most beautiful of its kind in Serbia. It was built in the Neo-Gothic style and in addition to two imposing 63-meter-high towers, it is adorned with a large central rosette and many statues of saints and demons, resembling gargoyle like on the Notre Dame from Paris. The exhibition featured all the Saints separately and the Demons, their biographies and the significance of their presence on the walls.
In fact, it is so beautiful both outside and inside that two weeks ago was shot an American horror film "True Hunting" .
After that I was walking around the museum and watched all the works of art standing there. I was fascinated by the triptych, which was created in 1895, it shows the city of Vršac in three paintings, the center where you can also see the church, vineyards and the fields.
The museum is full of jewelry mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries and weapons that were used before.
Every time I visit this museum I fall more and more in love with its beauty.
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