St. Mark’s Church

St. Mark’s Church or Church of St. Mark (Serbian: Crkva Svetog Marka) is a Serbian Orthodox church located in the Tašmajdan park in Belgrade, near the Parliament of Serbia. It was built in the Serbo-Byzantine style by the Krstić brothers, completed in 1940, on the site of a previous church dating to 1835. It is one of the largest churches in the country. There is a small Russian church next to St. Mark’s.

It was built slightly north of a wooden 19th-century church that was destroyed in 1941. Due to the rapid growth of the city and population increase, it became necessary in the beginning of the 20th century to build a larger church in the Belgrade quarter of Palilula.

St. Mark’s Church is 62 meters long and 45 meters wide, and the height of the main cupola to the base of the cross is 60 meters. The usable interior surface area of the church is about 1,150 square meters, and the naos (nave) of the church can accommodate over 150 singers. More than seventy years after the beginning of its construction, St. Mark’s Church has not been completed.