Christianity In Serbia And The Balkans
Above is St. Petka’s Church is a Serbian Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Petka of Bulgaria and is also known as the Church of the Holy Petka. It is located inside the Belgrade Fortress and dates back to the 13th century. The church has been destroyed and rebuilt numerous times throughout history, most recently in 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
During the Ottoman rule of Belgrade (1521-1867) with the banning of Christian worship, St. Petka’s Church was converted into a mosque. The Ottomans added a minaret and other Islamic features to the church. After the liberation of Belgrade from Ottoman rule in 1867, the church was returned to the Serbian Orthodox Church. The minaret was removed and the church was restored to its original appearance.
Belgrade Fortress today is a historic monument and park located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Roman city of Singidunum was founded. The fortress has been continuously inhabited for over 2,300 years, making it one of the oldest and most important cultural monuments in Eastern Europe.
A Bit Of Kota Kinabalu Culture
People, places and captured moments selected from The Intentional Travelers photo collection. While strolling around Kota Kinabalu we discovered a festival in a park with these young ladies playing the Gabang Kayu. It is a traditional xylophone-style instrument used in Kota Kinabalu and throughout Sabah, Malaysia, particularly by the Bajau, Suluk, Bisaya, and Orang Sungai…
What Are Photographs Worth?
Below is a relic from one time when I sold photos as digital downloads, I have been a photographer since I was fourteen when my father gave me his 35mm camera after he couldn’t figure out how to use it and that was over sixty years ago. I qualified as a photographer in the Navy…
The World’s Largest Sculpture
People, places and captured moments selected from The Intentional Travelers photo collection. A photo taken at the parks gift shop showing a model of the monument with the mountain in the distance.. On Thunderhead Mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota there is a project that was started in 1948 to create the world’s…
The Intentional Travelers 