The landmark Memorial Church of St. Great Martyr Dimitri is a Serbian Orthodox church and ossuary in Lazarevac, Serbia, built in honor of the fallen soldiers of the Serbian and Austro-Hungarian armies in the Battle of Kolubara.
The idea of a memorial church with an ossuary arose from the search for a place for the remains of the soldiers who died in the Battle of Kolubara in 1914 on the battlefields around Lazarevac. In 1921, under the leadership of priest Čedomir M. Popović, a "Committee for the Construction of the Memorial Church with Ossuary in Lazarevac" was founded. After its dissolution in 1937, the "Association for the construction of the memorial church with an ossuary in Lazarevac" was founded under the direction of Father Borivoje Đorđević.
The iconostasis was painted in 1940 by the émigré Russian painter Pimen Sofronov. It was planned that he would also paint the church with icons, but this was prevented by the outbreak of World War II. The church was not painted until the 1990s and 2000s.
Built at the end of the interwar period, the building complex in Lazarevac is a stylistically unique work. Along with the Church of St. George in Oplenac, it is the most important monument in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
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