Author:
Publication: Gracanica
Monastery
Date: August 18, 2000
The Orthodox Diocese
of Raska and Prizren has just received that the Serb Orthodox Church of
St. Elijah in Vucitrn, central Kosovo was destroyed early this morning.
The church was built in 1834 in the eastern part of the city of Vucitrn
where previously had existed an old Serb medieval church. The church
was painted by frescoes in 1871 by Blaza Damjanovic from Debar. In
June 1999 the church was looted and vandalized by local Kosovo Albanians
together with the nearby parish home.
So far the church was
guarded by the KFOR soldiers from the United Arabian Emirates. It
was also in their area of responsibility that on January 30 the Serb Orthodox
Church of St. Nicholas was blown up in the nearby deserted Serb village
of Banjska.
The Serbian Orthodox
Church strongly condemning this barbarian act of the ethnic Albanian extremists
and requests from KFOR to conduct immediate investigation and bring the
perpertrators to the justice.
Information Service of
the Diocese of Raska and Prizren
Serbian Orthodox Diocese
of Kosovo and Metohija Gracanica Monastery, Pristina, Kosovo and Metohija
