Vidovdan Heroes Chapel | |
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Kapela vidovdanskih heroja, Капела видовданских хероја | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | Serbian Orthodox Church |
Governing body | Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosna |
Location | |
Location | Centar, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Geographic coordinates | 43°52′0.5″N18°24′41.3″E / 43.866806°N 18.411472°E |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Aleksandar Deroko |
Style | Serbo-Byzantine Revival |
Completed | 1939 |
The Vidovdan Heroes Chapel [a] is a Serbian Orthodox chapel and mausoleum located on the Holy Archangels Georgije and Gavrilo Orthodox Cemetery [b] located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The crypt of the chapel contains the bodily remains of Gavrilo Princip and other members of Young Bosnia who took part in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914. [1]
In 2019, the chapel was renovated. [2]
The twelve people interred in the crypt of the chapel are Gavrilo Princip, Bogdan Žerajić, Vladimir Gaćinović, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Danilo Ilić, Veljko Čubrilović, Neđo Kerović, Mitar Kerović, Mihajlo Miško Jovanović, Jakov Milović, Trifko Grabež and Marko Perin. [3]
Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The killing of the Archduke and his wife set off the July Crisis, a chain of events that within one month led to the outbreak of World War I.
Vidovdan is a Serbian national and religious holiday, a slava celebrated on 28 June, or 15 June according to the Julian calendar. The Serbian Church designates it as the memorial day to Saint Prince Lazar and the Serbian holy martyrs who fell during the Battle of Kosovo against the Ottoman Empire on 15 June 1389. It is an important part of Serb ethnic and Serbian national identity.
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Danilo Ilić was a Bosnian Serb who was among the chief organisers of the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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Slobodan Princip, nicknamed Seljo (Сељо), was a Yugoslav Partisan fighter and the district staff chief of the Partisan Sarajevo area during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero. He was the nephew of Gavrilo Princip.
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