It would be good to mention that, besides this church, Korunović has made two more churches in Slovenia - in Maribor and Celj. At that time, in 1930s, there hasn't been a proper orthodox church in Ljubljana. Orthodox belivers and residents of Ljubljana had the need to have their own temple. Ljubljan municipality helped, as testified by the words of Ljubljana municipality president at that time: "We have given the most beautiful place to the orthodox church, so the foreners can see that the unbreakable Yugoslav kingdom starts from our white Ljubljana, and that the brothers are always to be brothers." "The most beautiful place", as said by the Ljubljana municipality president at that time, Puca, truly is park Tivoli, which looks amasing, and it truly is the most beautiful place in all of Ljubljana. Park Tivoli is located in the town centre, an so is this orthodox temple.

This type of sacred building is a typical Serbo-Byzantine style with a basis in the shape of a cross, and it has five domes. The church is 32,5 meters high, and it's dome diameter is 4,5 meters long. It's completely built from reinforced concrete. In the visual sense, it reminds us of Gračanica from Kosovo and Metohija area, but it's not a replica. We could say that Korunović was inspired by Gračanica. This is, alogside Maribor and Lazarica, the biggest sacred building made by this author. At the temple entrance, there is an arc niche with a rosette in the middle and a pair of half-pillars. Korunović had, like in his other churches, pointed out the arms of the cross. On the north and the south side of the narthex there are two eight-sided domes, analog to the side of the altar. In the central area, there are four massive pillars.

All five apses are seven-sided on the outside, and on the inside, they are semicircular. The three-part altar is built up, and there is also a hallway that goes around the inner walls of the apse, which is unexpected in orhodox architecture and a relapsed deambulatorio.

Korunović did the iconostasis skeches, but they were never implemented. The curch was finished in 1936. and it represents one of the best preserved churches that Korunić made. This church avoided destruction, unlike those in Maribor and Celj, souly beacause the Italians were in Ljubljana in 1941. and not the Germans. This church still exists today, it is a grace of the Slovenian capital, and it still has it's own unique spirit.

Source: AG Architecture; Kadijević, A., 1996. Momir Korunović. Belgrade: State Republic Institute for Protection of Cultural Heritage
Photo: Goran Anđelković
Source: AG Arhitektura | AG Architecture - Goran Anđelković