SERBIA’S LARGEST Orthodox CHURCH?! | Temple Of Saint Sava | Belgrade Travel Vlog

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I am loving your videos from Serbia!

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Thank you so much for your support! 🙏🏻 Our next Serbia Vlog will come out next weekend 😊

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Nice vlog

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Thank you!! 🇷🇸🤍

[@cristinasartin617]

The temple was so BEAUTIFUL! Thank you for sharing these experiences with us. I'd love to see it someday! ❤

[@HelloNamasteTravelers]

Yes! The videos do jot so it justice!!!

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Wow 😮😮

[@HelloNamasteTravelers]

It is so much more beautiful in person!!

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Nice, but pitty, you missed The Crypt in St. Sava !!!

[@HelloNamasteTravelers]

Thank you! And about the crypt... I know, we were so upset because that was the main thing I wanted to see! It was closed for construction or something while we were there 😥 Hopefully we will get a chance to go back!

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This is my new favorite vlog! When you come to India you can contact me and I will show you some Indian temples! ❤️

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Fantastic!! We cannot wait to explore India more!! There are so many temples on our list from India! 🤍

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[@nikolaivanovic3163]

Just for the info... Saint Sava was a member of the most powerful and most influential Serbian medieval royal dynasty. The Nemanjic dynasty. This family, which ruled Serbia for more than 200 years, produced 3 grand princes, 8 Serbian kings, 2 emperors and 2 archbishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Saint Sava was born in 1174 as the youngest son of the founder of the Nemanjic dynasty, Stefan Nemanja (born in 1113, grand prince from 1166 to 1196). When he came of age (in the Middle Ages this limit was 16 years old for boys) his father gave him a province (Herzegovina) to teach him how to be a ruler one day. But after only one year Saint Sava literally said: "I don't want this. I don't want power, money, titles and crown. I want to become a monk and devote my life to God". And so, at the age of 17 or 18, Saint Sava went to Mount Athos in the then Byzantine Empire. His father was against it at first but eventually accepted his son's wish. In other words, a prince just voluntarily renounced his power and went to a monastery! This is an almost unimaginable scenario in the entire history of the world, then or now! Especially now. As a monk, Saint Sava became the greatest Serb of all time... Not because I say so, but because other Serbs who can carry that unofficial title said so. The greatest Serbian scientists, Nikola Tesla and Mihajlo Pupin, the greatest Serbian writer, Petar II Petrović Njegoš, the greatest Serbian athlete, Novak Djokovic... They all agree that Saint Sava is the man. So what did he do? Saint Sava wrote the first Serbian code (with both civil and church laws), he wrote the first Serbian constitution, and he was also a writer (he wrote several books as well). He was a world-class diplomat, a polyglot, a great theologian and spiritual man. He was also a teacher, an enlightener and a man who built a large number of churches, monasteries, schools and hospitals. His most famous monastery is Hilandar, which is located on Mount Athos and which Saint Sava built together with his father, who also became a monk after he gave his crown to his son Stefan in 1196. Hilandar is also the first Serbian university. But most important of all... Thanks to his diplomatic skills, Saint Sava managed to get recognition from the Byzantine Empire for the creation of an independent Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. He also became the first archbishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Serbian Church became a patriarchate during the reign of Emperor Stefan Uros IV Dusan Nemanjic, but no Nemanjic was ever a partarch). Because of his great contribution to Orthodox Christianity, Saint Sava was declared a saint Equal to Apostles, which is the greatest possible honor in the Orthodox world. Despite the fact that the Turks, the Catholic church and the communists tried to destroy the memory of Saint Sava among the Serbian people and Serbian people in general, he still remained our spiritual father and the most important figure in the history of Serbia.

[@HelloNamasteTravelers]

What?! 🤯These facts make the church SOOO much more beautiful! Thanks for taking the time to lay out such beautifully written words that will help educate people!! ❤️

[@nikolaivanovic3163]

@@HelloNamasteTravelers A lot more needs to be said about this great man, especially when it comes to the last paragraph of my previous comment, the building of the Temple itself, Teodor Nestorovic and his suffering, Sinan Pasha and his crime... A very long story could also be written about the church located under the Temple of Saint Sava right next to the crypt, primarily because the frescoes on the walls of the underground church represent some of the important Serbian saints, but also because that underground church is dedicated to the Saint Serbian prince (knyaz) Lazar, the hero of the famous battle in Kosovo (1389) against Ottoman Turks, one of the most legendary Serbian monarchs of all time and a man who was and still is an inspiration for many Serbian generals, writers, artists and monarchs. But that's another story. It would take a lot of lines to properly point out the importance of the battle of Kosovo for Serbian and European history (we actually won that battle, it was not a draw). Not to mention the importance of the territory of Kosovo and Metohija for the Serbian people and the cult of Prince Lazar. Unfortunately, at some point, the story about Kosovo would probably take me to one of the most painful part of Serbian history. To the chain of events that led to the fact that there are almost no Serbs in Kosovo today, although Kosovo is our holy land. A chain of events that, each in its own time, was caused by Turks, communists, Albanians and Americans. But as I said before, that's another story. What I have written so far is enough I guess. Thank you for such a wonderful video 🙂

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You are close to Turkey. Come here next 🇹🇷

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Very soon! 😊👍🏻

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I miss you too!! Cannot wait until I can go to India again!