Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Mostar was built in 1873 and represented one of the symbols of the city of Mostar. It is located in Brankovac. Magnificent, monumental, and picturesque church dedicated to the Holy Trinity was one of the tallest and the most beautiful orthodox temples in the Balkans. The temple was completely destroyed in the war in 1992. It was shelled on 15 June 1992, then torched and shortly thereafter blown up.
Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity was built from 1863 to 1873. The funds for the construction were provided by Serbian folk from Mostar and its vicinity. A great contribution was sent by sultan Abdul Aziz, and some of the funds were donated by the Russian Empire. The Church builders were Spasoje Vulić from Herzegovina and the renowned architect Andrey Damyanov Zografski from Veles.
The temple has the basic structure of a basilica, with only a few small openings, superstructure is byzantine with six unequal domes on tall glass-front tholobates, which supplied the light for the interior. The bell tower constructed in baroque style, attics with gothic and oriental spikes and rich decorations around the openings were the distinguishing stylistic marks of the Holy Trinity church in Mostar.
The outer dimensions of the church at the base are 26 x 45 m, the height of the central dome is 30 m, and the height of the belltower with the cross is 45 m. Toward the end of the 20th century, the central dome and the southern wall were painted by Greek fresco painters. The large three-sectioned stone gate was designed by the architect Momir Korunović and constructed in the early 20th century in the style of national-romantic expressionism.
Reconstruction of the Church of the Holy Trinity began in 2010. Metropolitan Leontije Radulović was buried in the church in 1888, and his relics were found in 2010 during the reconstruction of the church. Consecration and the laying of the crosses for the reconstructed church took place on 4 November 2018.
(Priest Radivoje Krulj)
