belgrade's church of saint sava is jaw-dropping

[@Erato7]

Απο τους Ωραιότερους Ναούς που έχω δει.Μπραβο στους Σέρβους.Την Ευλογία της Παναγιας να έχει αυτός ο Υπέροχος λαός.

[@frostflower5555]

I wish I can go see it one day, and I will. The Balkans is the crossroad of civilization. I love reading about the ancient Vincha culture.

[@anamaria-ts5cc]

Visit the city where Emperor Constantine was born. NIS.. The father of Christianity.......

[@gamingcorner285]

In ancient Vinca you would get stucked in time... Incredible feeling.

[@bgdabg6769]

Imagine even millennium older but also mind-blowing Serbian churches. Unique world heritage currently disappearing because of terrorism and separatists supported by Western governments. Every decent, honest person in the world should fight for this justice - Kosovo is Serbia!

[@COCOGROCOSHOW]

Fan fact : mosaic in that church is made from 320 tons of gold plated (or gold leef) pieces . Probably biggest mosaic in the World.

[@Fergusius]

Not anymore. The People's Salvation Cathedral (Romanian: Catedrala Mântuirii Neamului), also known as the National Cathedral (Romanian: Catedrala Națională), an Eastern Orthodox cathedral under construction in Bucharest, which will serve as the patriarchal cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church, is the largest and the tallest and will therefore have the biggest mosaics as well.

[@js4182]

​@@Fergusius it might have volume in base and square meters on paper but its domes are little and spiky to hold some grandiose mosaics compared to temple of Saint Sava . It is almost Catholic looking. I can hardly see it having the divine effect of Saint Sava. Saint Sava temple is simply magnificent, it is built after Holly Wisdom in a Serbian Byzantine style. It is Orthodoxy in original by its architecture. Nothing beats that Central dome. Once you enter, it is a feeling of infinity of heaven above you. Finish it first and then we will see but I just don't see it.

[@aleksandarstavric2226]

@@js4182 Holy Apostles use to be an inspiration for this church - not Hagia Sophia

[@js4182]

@@aleksandarstavric2226 really? To me, Saint Sava looks more like The Holly Wisdom than like The Holly Apostles. Maybe from the back side it does have some resemblance, but that is it.

[@sasastojkovic858]

50 милиона делова

[@pexonifikacija]

🇷🇸❤️☦️🕊️✝️ Љубав из Србије свим Хришћанима .

[@vickoslavkovic2593]

Šteta što bog ne postoji.😁

[@ReStOrEdLiFe88]

You should go visit Vinča, prehistoric settlement dated to 7000 BC. It's amazing

[@gorantomic7150]

You should visit older churches too, there is one on Kalemegdan called Ružica. Greetings...

[@BelgradeArch]

Ruzhitsa and St Petka, very close to each other, very important, at Belgrade Fortress.

[@deso224]

Ortodox religion is jaw drop,belive me!Pure love,piece and holiness

[@vlax12]

@kicabranticta9304 Totally wrong. The only entity worshiped in orthodoxy is God. The saints are celebrated but not worshiped.

[@bogdankp]

Imagine now if all that money was put in schools and kindergartens, playgrounds. What a waste spending gold and money on an imaginary bullshit. Religion is cancer, made for the poor and stupid. Every Serb, no matter the age and gender, can list at least 10 saints, but can't tell names of 3 Serbian scientists. What a disgrace for human kind. 😔😔😔

[@belgradegirl86]

​@kicabranticta9304Oh I love smart people like you who know nothing abot Orthodoxy 😏

[@AleksandarBloom]

Pedos and Nationalists too! 😊😊

[@mental_order]

Pravoslavlje je sve sem mira, ljubavi i svetosti. Oličenje razdora, mržnje, svađe, bahatosti, bluda, svetogrđa, nasilja. Nema ničega lepog u pravoslavlju, islam je gori samo. Svaka religija je užas, a Srbi sa verom nemaju veze, sem što znaju da reže i tupe.

[@tcurtisFl]

Great video! The church was amazing for sure🤯. I’m loving Belgrade and your videos. Thanks for sharing👏

[@dusann.3025]

So glad you enjoyed your time in our city! ❤️❤️❤️

[@Toyota_Supra-cp2ug]

good to see you had fun and visited one of the holiest places in my country love from serbia

[@slobodanpuzic3648]

Thank you guys,i really appreciate your video and respectfull way you look at Saint Sava church,i like simple normal people like you are.Have the best time ever in rest of your trip in my country.

[@GizmoAndCompany]

Thank you! ♥️

[@MirkoFisk]

My dear Friends, I thank You for sharing and appreciating beautiful sights and Your impressions of my hometown.. Bless You and wish all Your adventures be youfull and fulfilling!! ❤

[@milosmiletic970]

go on Kosovo and Metohija and see real medieval serbian ortodox churches and monasteries!!! so old Serbia is on Kosovo

[@ananikolic6374]

I fear it is too late: in 2000, there were already around a hundred Orthodox churches destroyed by the Albanians. In March 2004, 35 religious buildings were burned. Other Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries have since been wiped out. God knows how many are left?!

[@SAPTACDUSE]

God Bless Serbia ❤❤❤🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

[@Краснаяшапочка-я8э]

💕Belgrad-my love and dream💕

[@stef422]

Lovely couple and beautiful video🥰

[@robinbuckley-curtis8220]

Agree!

[@gerillazack77]

St. Sava church is the biggest Orthodox church or temple in the world, you can check it in Wikipedia data....

[@pajcka]

I think the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is bigger.

[@SugarBlood15]

​@@pajcka Haghia Sophia has a bigger dome. And it's de facto a mosque, unfortunately.

[@pajcka]

@@SugarBlood15 They can consider it a mosque as much as they want, in fact yes, but it won't last long.

[@gerillazack77]

@@pajcka није провери на википедији...

[@pajcka]

@@gerillazack77 Википедија није релевантан извор.Ја мислим да џје Аја Софија ,највећа.Ако говоримо о архитектури.

[@jovanstankovik5745]

A CHURCH is not a tourist attraction IT is THE HOUSE OF THE LORD and of HIS Worship and Praying ✝️✝️✝️

[@draganpaunovic5596]

Very Cool video you guys did awesome job.

[@dusancville]

Mosaics inside the St Sava temple were made by Russian artists. Big part of it is donation of Russia. Many great places aside from St Sava temple and some other churches were made by Russian architects too. So no wonder about huge respect and love for Russia and Russians in Serbia. They were never throwing bombs here, instead they were acting progressively all the time (leave aside communism, that was the business of USSR, not to be mixed with Russia).

[@ChaosPrototypeIX]

Odakle ti to? Ja za sigurno znam da su radili i nasi posto je jedna moja drugarica radila. Cak sam je i bio video u jednom ovakvom klipu od pre vise godina kada su je stranci snimili dok je radila.

[@dusancville]

@@ChaosPrototypeIX bilo je dosta reci o tome prilikom Putinove posete i obilaska Hrama sa pocivsim Patrijarhom

[@urosmarjanovic663]

@@ChaosPrototypeIX Rusi su platili i urađen je mozaik u njihovom stilu. Realno, ne postoji neki "srpski stil" u fresko-slikarstvu i mozaiku... prvo je bio Vizantijski u srednjem veku, onda u Vojvodini neka mešavina baroka i okolnih pravoslavnih crkava i ovo je čist Ruski. Dao bih 1000 ovakvih presranih, preskupih i serijalizovanih modernih kičerica za jednog Belog Anđela iz Mileševe.

[@aleksandar-gv2me]

Okay guys next time wedding here😊❤ Thk you.Serbian 👉❤

[@zoran1823]

The construction began in the time of godless and church-destroying communism! Slava Gospodu! Nice video!

[@Oki3e]

Sveti Sava isn't the founder of religion. He is a founder of Serbian Orthodox church. There is a difference. The Orthodox religion existed way before. The real meaning of the word Orthodox means the real celebration in Slavic languages. If you take a moment to read about The great schism, you'll find out that the Catholicism was a sinful separation from the one true Christianity that is today specified as Orthodoxy in order to specify which is which. But Orthodoxy is basically a one true belief.

[@nocomment5705]

Father of an Independent Serbian Orthodox Church precisely. Serbian Orthodoxy existed before, it was just subordinated to Constantinople.

[@urosmarjanovic663]

@@nocomment5705 and after

[@BelgradeArch]

Must-see tourist spots in Bg.: 1 Knez Mihaylova St and Kalemegdan (Fortress), 2 St Sava Church 3 Skadarlia street 4 Nikola Tesla Museum 5 Belgrade waterfront.

[@GizmoAndCompany]

Thank you! The only spot we haven’t seen from this list is the Nikola Tesla Museum - we will make sure to check it out :)

[@squids]

I loved this video! I'm looking forward to see your other videos!

[@tatiyanazzz]

Russian artists made the amazing mosaic. And Russians also donated a huge amount of money for that project.

[@sandrabojovic4817]

Obviously, because the colour of gold dominates the frescoes. It's not at all in keeping with the Serbian fresco painting tradition. Enter any Serbian church. The most prevalent colour on the walls is Byzantine/Eastern Roman BLUE.

[@snezanamil8462]

Thanks for this video.

[@Hope-sf3dk]

when you go to a church in europe, or really anywhere, you really need to dress appropriately...i'm actually surprised you weren't asked to leave. shorts are a no no.

[@LewisLy]

Wow never really thought about that coming from the point of view of a tourist, you think it's just an attraction but it is a church at the end of the day. I was planning on going to Portugal and visiting some of the cathedrals there and that thought never crossed my mind. Thanks for sharing the other perspective, definitely going to be keeping that in mind 😮

[@GizmoAndCompany]

Wow, thank you, that’s good to know! We’ll make sure to be more careful from now on 😊

[@hercbos8704]

no one will judge you, especially not in Belgrade, but they still have some unwritten rules. Here in the states, it doesn't say anywhere that you have to dress appropriately for court, but when you go to try to fix your ticket, you won't go in leggings

[@milosstojanic8016]

In Russia, even recording inside a church is not allowed. The security will escort you out and make you delete everything. Since the church is not a museum.

[@bosesebi6685]

yea, they recognize tourist and understand , that on a hot day, and being all over the town, its too much to ask.@@hercbos8704

[@bsdpowa]

This church is a tourist destination so the rules are a bit lax, otherwise it's custom in Orthodox churches that you have to cover your limbs, men can't wear hats and women have to cover their head when they enter so they way you were dressed is not appropriate and if you go to any other Orthodox church in Serbia you will likely be denied entrance. Just an FYI as in an interesting fact, not a critique in any way.

[@GizmoAndCompany]

Thank you, this is super helpful! Glad we learned this lesson now before visiting other beautiful churches!

[@bsdpowa]

@@GizmoAndCompany Enjoy your stay! Churches are not that big tbh, tourists mostly like to visit monasteries. Serbia is rich with 10th-14th Century Orthodox monasteries (still active) if you're into history and there's Vincha Culture near Belgrade which is the oldest European settlement discovered yet (~8k years old). But all in all have fun and eat plenty of burek, chevapi and karageorge pleskavitsa, you can always lose weight later. :)

[@pajcka]

​@@GizmoAndCompany So, when you enter an important meeting or the municipality building, you should be properly dressed, and if you are a Christian, especially in the temple.

[@withoutshadowww]

​@@bsdpowaIn Serbian and Bulgarian Orthodox church women are not expected to cover their heads, that's perhaps the case with more "conservative" Orthodox churches such as Russian, Romanian and Georgian. In monasteries, yes.

[@bsdpowa]

@@withoutshadowww it is, they just don't do it except in monasteries

[@ivangoran4461]

Those hectares of beautiful mosaics are made by our Russian brothers.

[@Tunguska2008]

You just shouldn't be wearing fitness clothing visiting a sacred place of any country you visit.

[@milebakajic7202]

Thanku for this video! Beograd having so many interesting places to visit just one thing: Beograd or Sava going with capital leter,if u didnt know. Btw Serbian alfabet is best in the world. No peanat buter english! Serbian - hasn't speling

[@balexic]

I never visited this church. My grandmother & grandfather lived on church property at the Church of the Ascension (also in the downtown). My grandfather was the church caretaker. I was born in Canada. My father was Serbian from Belgrade. My mother was Irish from County Waterford. They met & married in Toronto. From 1965-1972 I spent many summers with my grandmother in her house on that church property. Belgrade holds a special place in my heart! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Ascension,_Belgrade

[@manamanamanamana1020]

Are you orthodox or catholic?

[@urosmarjanovic663]

During that time, it was a pile of bricks, not sure if it even had marble facade. Dome was installed in 1989. I think.

[@SerbAtheist]

Just a small correction. The remains of Saint Sava were originally buried in Tarnovo, Bulgaria where he died (he did a lot of traveling) and were later transferred to the Mileševa Monastery near the town of Prijepolje, which is in south-west Serbia. Only after a failed rebellion were they dug up, taken to the Vračar plateau where the Temple now stands (a Temple is any church shaped like an equal-armed cross rather than the more traditional elongated cross). There are plenty of purists that will insist on a very strict dress code when entering a church, e.g. long pants and shirts for men, dresses and head covering for women and such, but in practice covering your knees and shoulders for both genders is the more de facto standard, for both locals and foreign tourists alike.

[@mladencolic4577]

I've seen it few times and it's breathtaking. As a Serb I just wish we had less graffiti and less stray dogs, we would definitely be in top 10 the most beautiful countries in the world.

[@jobrock1079]

Have you ever witnessed anyone in the act of making graffiti? There are so many complaining about it, but it doesn't seem you guys catch and stop anyone doing it.

[@mladencolic4577]

@@jobrock1079 it's the kids/hooligans spraypainting over their rivals graffiti so it looks like a mess in the end. The good thing is that cities allowed artists to make murals of some famous people or just some patriotic stuff so it would be acceptable for everyone and it looks good because it's professionaly made. That helped a little but there's just A LOT of that sh..t

[@BJovke]

The church of St Sava is very similar to Hagia Sophia. It's kind of replacement for it because Hagia Sophia is in Turkish hands.

[@sandrabojovic4817]

For sure, St Sava temple has taken over the role of the Orthodox Christian spiritual centre from Hagia Sophia.

[@p.b.markovic4953]

BRAVO!!!

[@nisexpres]

Sveti sava is a replica of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople). Btw Constantine the Great who introduced Christianity in Europe was born in today's Nis, southern Serbia. (the Roman Empire then).

[@milebakajic7202]

Sava je vlastita imenica, treba veliko slovo bre

[@vladar2623]

Brate, pls, ne lupaj, kakva replika Aja Sofije???

[@vladar2623]

@@mile8788 Nije on rekao u tom kontekstu, nego 'svet je izgubio Aja Sofiju (jer je postala džamija) ali je dobio crkvu Sv. Save', misleći da mogu da se mere po veličanstvenošću. Itd, itd. A onda ovaj dečko gore lupeta. Bolje je reći da je crkva sva u mozaiku, najvećem na svetu, da je raspon Isusovih ruku na svodu, takođe najveći na svetu na nekoj fresci, da su kockice žute od zlatnog peska, da je crkva druga pravoslavna na svetu po veličini itd, itd. Ima puno toga za pohvaliti se, a ne vredjati samog sebe. Čuj kopija...

[@AlAl-ue1uh]

Not replica of Hagia Sophia ... it was built following that pattern but not replica for sure. Hagia Sophia and Saint Sava look completely different.

[@vladar2623]

@@AlAl-ue1uh For sure, churches have pattern, they can not be in form of shopping mall or apartment building. But replica is totally wrong word.

[@DjordjeDjuricSRB]

one small correction it’s temple not church. Welcome to Serbia bro

[@PARTIZANREPORT]

❤❤❤❤

[@lukapopovic6431]

Cool video!!!

[@nasiaaaa-w4q]

how tall is the guy xD he towers everyone he must be Serbian haha Serbs are tall ! Great videos

[@GizmoAndCompany]

Haha, not Serbian but very tall! Nick is 6’7 or 201 cm

[@dzonikg]

@@GizmoAndCompany He could be basketball player

[@slobodanstojanovic8125]

Orthodox Churches are made to be not grand from outside like catholic to impress ppl or to make them go inside,they are grand from inside cos its suppose to celebrate God...

[@tehnoelektronikloznica7119]

Belgrade with big B letter, Sava with big S letter. Belgrade iz city name and Sava is saint name. Respect, pls.

[@user-xj3ve7wt8k]

Beautiful Mosque converted to the Orthodox Church.

[@tiffanyyllera5977]

Do you remember the name of the gelato place?

[@vvvvvvvvv1v]

Steta sto je hram pretvoren u turisticku atrakciju, hram treba da pripada vernicima. Hram ne treba da ima automatska klizna vrata na ulazu , vec treba da ima velika drvena vrata. Velika zeza se cini prwvoslavnom hramu koju donosi moda sa zapada. It's a pity that the temple has been turned into a tourist attraction, the temple should belong to the believers. The temple should not have automatic sliding doors at the entrance, but should have large wooden doors. A big joke is being made to the Orthodox Church brought by fashion from the West

[@yellowwasprakija2869]

I don’t know why but I much prefer St Mark’s Church

[@GizmoAndCompany]

That’s definitely on our list to visit next! With proper clothes this time 😅

[@urosmarjanovic663]

Me too, but I was christened there so I might be biased. Also, Emperor Dušan remains rest in St.Mark's church if I'm not mistaken.

[@yellowwasprakija2869]

@@urosmarjanovic663 you are correct I believe, as well as many of the house of Obrenovic

[@GordanaMitrovic-jq9cs]

Добродошли сви!Само да знате неке основне ствари:Жене не би никако требало да улазе у цркву у панталонама већ у аукњи,пристојне дужине и облика а мушкарци не у кратким панталонама.Ако будете желели научићете.Молим вас,покушајте да пронађете:ROOTS OF ORTODOXY

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

🥰🥰🥰

[@shmoo-zd1yz]

Not all Serbs are tall some are short but have huge ... Feet😁

[@GizmoAndCompany]

LOL

[@nikolamitrovic323]

YEAH YEAH YEAH.. As a Serbian I can tell you one thing, so much money is wasted on that church that they could build a subway in Belgrade. So many poor unemployed people here that people don't even care. Only tourists sometimes say WOOW

[@MrAvatar011]

This hatred towards the Church among you atheists and autochauvinists is very funny. Because I don't know what else to call you, since for you the construction of the central temple in Belgrade dedicated to probably the greatest personality in the history is " money wasted "

[@mihajlomrmos5990]

Great video but please... Don't wear fitness clothing to the holy sites, its seen very disrespectful...

[@GizmoAndCompany]

Thank you! We learned our lesson, we will make sure to be careful with our clothing next time 😅

[@petarbacevic9127]

cool

[@YU-mv3ku]

Free chantry... Srbija- Serbia ❤

[@gorila987k]

enjoyed... until mcdonalds showed up in neoclassical style x)

[@belgrader6858]

finger down for this video,coz you said ''Holy crap,that's huge'' near to church enter,on chorch property,not nice man.

[@cossack-ps5hn]

It troubled me too, a lot. Pozdrav iz Teksasa, brate, i svako dobro zheli. --Steve Kovacevich

[@robertodibaggio8181]

ok, just remember Men built it, there was NO supernatural, no gods or devils.. it was made, in this case by Serbian Men who designed, planned, worked to build it.

[@IIII-jr7qk]

Wtf, I visited a few countries In Europe and Belgrade is really shit

[@floydenelop8672]

The entrance to the church or to the super market !??

[@marjansrbin7875]

The first doors are huge and made of wood on each side of the tempel and on these doors the same prayer is read in different languages nice to see but true this super market barriers not vibes with a church

[@SrSRB]

As a Serb I just cant believe they put those there. It's actually embarrassing.

[@OktaedarPravilni]

Ma šta nam reče

[@radunMARSHAL]

It's somewhat of a running theme that the Americans (Canadians included, sorry) are amazed by big, flashy, kitschy things and lack the sense of culture. I've experienced it in Milan when some Americans I met were amazed by Milan's Duomo cathedral only because it was big and made out of marble and that's it. And you guys are basically doing the same. The cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade is jaw-droppingly kitschy, jaw-droppingly tasteless and a jaw-dropping waste of money. It looks like a cheap cultureless copy of Hagia Sophia, and its most important feature is simply being big and being made out of marble. There are a lot of really architecturally beautiful and amazing churches all around Serbia and Belgrade, and Saint Sava cathedral is not one. It's just big and plain, an ugly reminder that nationalism lacks culture and taste and pours huge amounts of money into kitsch.

[@ProstorniAktivista]

Veoma glup izraz "jaw dropping" za oduševljenje!

[@aleksaskela25]

Fun fact - Belgrade still doesn't have a sewer processing plant, it's been in the works for years, and it's still dumping fecal matter directly into Sava river, then into Danube - but hey, there's gold plated churches! We know our priorities!

[@danielarsic3575]

Naravno da znamo prioritete. Prvo čovek da se oboži a onda će raditi na dobrobit ljudi. Poslednjih 70 godina imamo bezbožnike na vlasti pa zato nemamo ni ovo što si pomenuo jer im je korupcija sasvim prirodna a i obavezna. Čovek koji je vernik i naučio se Božijim zakonima, teško da će podleći korupciji i otimačini na račun naroda. Ako ne veruješ u Boga onda veruj u prirodne zakone tj. ako ne radiš onako kako logika i priroda nalaže sigurno ćeš pobrati gorke plodove. U prevodu, kradi pare -> nema kanalizacije -> veca nehigijena -> zagadjenje prirode-> vise bolesti -> veci troskovi lecenja-> nema novca za razvoj vec stalno trosis na "gasenje vatre" -> itd. ko zna dokle. Fun fact - stvari su veoma jednostavne.

[@jobrock1079]

Actually there is news of a wastewater treatment plant being opened almost 6 months ago: First industrial biological plant for wastewater treatment opens Belgrade, 29 September 2023 By 31 December 2025, all business entities in Serbia that have waste water from technological production processes must build facilities for their purification. The Government of Serbia has allocated slightly more than €4.5 billion for wastewater treatment projects in our country, €1 billion of which is intended for projects in Belgrade.

[@aleksaskela25]

@@jobrock1079 Great news, thanks for the info - there was still feces floating along the most expensive waterfront bank just a month back, so hopefully we'll soon have "as above, so below" standards

[@jobrock1079]

@@aleksaskela25 Could that have been from those boat-houses moored along the riverbanks? About the waterfront - some of it looks nice but most of the buildings look plain and the facades look unfinished and un-decorated to me. They have the communist-socialist un-decorated concrete slabs look.

[@lexapop350]

Izgradnjom precistaca voda nestace "izmeta" ili bioloskog otpada kako se to strucno kaze, koji ali obozavaju ribe pa ce nestati riba u rekama kod Beograda pa samim tim i ptica narocito galebova koji se hrane ribama a i pecarosa oko beogradskih mostova. Sve ima svoje za i protiv.​@@aleksaskela25

[@bosesebi6685]

Russia ( Putin ) payed for mosaics and interior. All together costed more than 300 000 000 € and took 100 years to build. Waste of money and time.

[@vladas45]

Welcome to Serbia! Добродошли у Србију!

[@benitocolombus5072]

Ave Christus!

[@markomarkovic9136]

excellent video!!!!!!

[@roxyevangelis1024]

A holy place , a church calling jaw dropping is 🤮 !!! Who are you to be that disrespectfull 😤