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The Serbian Saborna Church dedicated to St.Nicholas, is situated on the site of the former church, dedicated to the same saint. The new church was finished in 1785, and it was consecrated by Vladika Vicentije Popović, and the works on its decoration were finished during Josif Jovanović Šakabenta, in 1805. The building is single nave, arched, with the two-story bell-tower in the west, where there are two porches and baptistery, while in the east there are three shallow altar apses. During the unsuccessful eclectical restoration, the church lost its strictly classicistic characteristics of its outer appearance. A great number of famous painters worked for the Big Church in Vršac, whose works are still in it, such as Nikola Nešković with ten icons, Pavel Đurković, who painted the iconostasis (altar screen), Simeon Jakšić and Mihajlo Popović with wall paintings and two large canvases by Paja Jovanović.
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