Church of St. Cyricus and Julitta
Location: Stanjinac
Year of construction: 1930.
The Church of St. Cyricus and Julitta was built in 1930.
It is located on a hill near the village. South of the altar apse there is a covenant stone cross from 1903 dedicated to St. Cyricus.
North of the apse is a stone monument from 1910. North of the church is a massive belfry built in post and petrail.
There is a village cemetery near the church.
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Architecture
The church in Stanjinac is a single-nave, triconchal building, vaulted with a semi-circular vault. It was built of solid material, plastered inside and out and painted white. The roof of the church is covered with a gabled roof covered with tiles, in the area above the side chanters’ desks it is broken so that from the outside it looks like a transept that gives the appearance of a cross.
It is divided into three traves: the altar space, the under-dome space and the nave, which are indicated in the interior by massive blind ports supported by blind pilasters.
In the east, there is a small, shallow dome, semi-circular on the outside and inside, vaulted with a semi-calotte and covered with tiles. In the area of the altar, on the north and south sides of the altar apse, there are shallow niches for proscomidia and diaconicons. Above the nave of the church rises a dome that rests on a square segmented base and a narrow, high, externally and internally octagonal tholobate. The dome is covered with a tin roof.
On the north and south sides of the church, there are smaller lateral conches, semicircular on the outside and inside, covered with ceramic tiles. The facade cloth of the church is without additional decorations. On the south and north walls of the nave of the church, there is one high window opening each, as well as on the side chanters’ desks. There is one circular window on the western wall above the altar apse. The entrance door, on the west side of the church, is framed by a blind, arched niche above which is an arched niche for the icon of the patron saint of the temple, and above it is a small circular opening. There is a side door on the north side.
The altar partition is made of wood, without any decoration. It is divided horizontally into three or four zones, indicated by wooden outlets. The lower zone includes the representation of the Annunciation on the royal doors as well as icons of St. Archangel Michael, throne icons of the Holy Mother of God and Jesus Christ, and St. John the Baptist.
In the upper zone there are six representations of saint apostles shown in pairs around the centrally placed Last Supper, to the north St. Simon and St. Andrew, St. Bartholomew and Thaddeus, St. Peter and St. Paul, and south St. Mark and St. John, St. Thomas and St. Philip, St. Matthew and St. Luke. In the third zone, from north to south, representations of St. Basil, St. Cyril and Methodius, the Nativity of Christ, the Holy Trinity, the Resurrection of Christ, the Ascension of Christ and St. Nicholas.
In the highest zone, the Crucifixion with representations of the Virgin and St. John the Baptist in individual medallions, under which dragons surrounded by goblets are painted on the north and south ends of the iconostasis. A large part of the icons is a gift from the contributor, as evidenced by the inscriptions on the icons.
