Map l map of museum with major facilities l church l reception l house l vajat l cottage - cooper's workshop l cottage with crosses l dairy l bakery l grain crib l corn crib l potter's workshop l cottage - hiding place l bee-hives shelves l cooper's l shed for drying plums l stable l blacksmith's workshop l hut-primitive dwelling place l cottage l small cottage l hall l summer stage l traditional handicrafts shop l inn l lodgings  




 





 St Apostles` Peter and Paul Church

 

The arrangement of the icons at the altar ramp is common and characteristic for the traditional Serbian temples during the Turkish occupation. This earliest work of Simeon Lazovic was created in two phases: the first icons were painted in 1764 and bear the characteristics of the post-Byzantium art, inspired by the Serbian Medieval art. The other group, dating from the beginning of the 8th decade, already shows signs of the new baroque style. 

 


St Apostles` Peter and Paul Church

A small hill in the village center hosts a one-nave brick church without dome, and with two-floor bell-tower which was later added on the west side. It is dedicated to St Apostles Peter and Paul. As it reads on the royal doors beside the signature of icon painter Simeon Lazovic, its construction and icons at the altar ramp date back to 1764. The information on the donors and the patron of the temple are inscribed at the part above the central door with `Nedremano oko` presentation at the iconostasis. Village graveyard is located by the church.
Archpriest Georgije Cmiljanic was the founder of a well-known Smiljanic family, which has given 8 generations of priests to Sirogojno and other neighbouring churches. The reconstruction of initial layout of the Sirogojno church was based on the preserved special manuscripts (sindjelija), protocols, records and other historical sources and analogies.
 


Iconostasis of the St Peter and Paul `s Church
  Modest architecture was vivified by a set of leaned arches on the side walls, and the molding of blind arcades on the façades under the roof wreath, as a token of respect of the monumental sacred edifices from the Medieval Serbian tradition. Under the steep, lofty wooden roof, besides the brick building, there was also a wooden porch resembling the traditional cottages built for everyday purposes by folk people. The construction style and the type of St Peter and Paul`s church reveal the Hertzegovina origin of the inhabitants which erected it.