St. Nicolas church description and photos - Montenegro: Ulcinj (Topic)

St. Nicolas church description and photos - Montenegro: Ulcinj. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is St. Nicolas church.

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Ulcinj, the southernmost city in Montenegro, is the center of the municipality of the same name. According to legend, it was in the Ultsin fortress that the famous prisoner, Miguel de Cervantes, was kept by pirates. For a long time, the city remained pirate, even during the reign of the Ottoman Empire.

There are many attractions in the city, but the Church of St. Nicholas is a special structure.

The first mentions of the Church of St. Nicholas in Ulcinj date back to the end XIX century. However, the history of the appearance of the church began even earlier - before, on the site of the building of the temple, there was a monastery dating back to the 15th century.

According to historical data, not long before the moment when Ulcinj was liberated from the Turks (who were forced to surrender territories, since they suffered defeats in the Russian-Turkish war), back in 1869, the Orthodox believers in Ulcinj built their own church near the White Mountain.

Turkish law stated that no building erected in the city could exceed the height of the minaret mosques. The builders of the Church of St. Nicholas acted very ingeniously: they built a spacious church, dug deep into the earth. Thus, the law was not violated.

Later the church was converted into a mosque, but in 1890 it again became the Orthodox church of St. Nicholas. Today, the church building houses the exposition of the Ulcinj Archaeological Museum.

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