GFE Stumpes: Novi Sad, Serbia II (4/4/2026)

Saturday, April 4, 2026 (continued)

We are still on our walking tour of Novi Sad.

Mural (2016, by Rosh Panonski) is dedicated
to the first cyclists of Novi Sad

Пошта Србије/Serbian Post Office (1958-1962,
by Dragiša Brašovan in Modernist style)

Надгробни споменик породице Ченази/Tombstone
of the Čenazi family (1790) is one artifact left after
the Armenian Eastern Catholic church was razed
to construct Mihajlo Pupin Boulevard

The other artifact is the Јерменски хачкар/
Armenian Khachkar/an intricately
hand-carved, memorial stone bearing a
central cross, typically resting on a rosette

And here is a sculpture (2011, by Sava Halugin)
of Mihajlo Pupin, a Serbian-American who
was an electrical engineer and physicist,
Columbia University professor, and a key figure
in the development of modern telecommunications
by developing the Pupin coils that could extend
the range of long-distance telephones; he also
was a founding member of National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1915,
which later became NASA

Палата Дунавске бановине/Palace of the Danube Banovina
(1936-1940, by Dragiša Brašovan in Modernist style with
art deco and stripped classicism elements) is the seat of
the provincial government of Vojvodina

Тениски клуб Војводина/Tennis Club Vojvodina
(est 1924) was the early training ground for tennis star
Monica Seles, who was born in Novi Sad

Дунавски парк/Danube Park was busy on this
beautiful spring day that was also a holiday

Danube Park pond

Музеј Војводине/Museum of Vojvodina (est 1847,
building 1896, by Gyula Wagner as the Court of Justice)

Viking Rinda Lunch: Beef and Barley Broth with root vegetables

New Orleans Style Muffuletta Sandwich with prosciutto.
turkey, ham, salami, bell pepper, olives, and Swiss cheese

After lunch we set out on our own.

Across the river is Петроварадинској тврђави/
Petrovaradin Fortress (1692-1780, when the Austrians
captured the fortress after 150 years under Turkish rule
in 1687, and never lost to the Turkish again)

Породица/The Family (1971, by Jovan
Soldatović) is a memorial to the Victims of
the Raid in Novi Sad, where occupying
Hungarian forces carried out a mass
shooting of more than a thousand innocent
citizens, including Serbs, Jews, and Romani,
at what is now known as the Quay of
the Victims of the Raid, and were
pushed beneath the frozen Danube River

In 1992, plaques were added at the Quay of the
Victims of the Raid, listing the names and with
texts in Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak and Hebrew (KSS)

A crew was filming an interview with perhaps
Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, an environmental activist
and member of the National Assembly of Serbia

Statue (c 1988, by Lászlo Szilágyi) of
Janika Balaž, a Serbian tamburitza (a type of
long-necked lute) musician and band leader

Радник/The Worker (1931, by Toma Rosandić)
is on Дом радника/Labor Hall

Looks exactly like the statue in Belgrade
of Đura Jakšić (Serbian poet, painter, and
writer); however, this one is dated 1982
but is also by Jovan Soldatović

Enormous popcorn on top of this vendor

It has become very crowded in Novi Sad

Girls wearing willow wreaths

Саборна Светог Ђорђа/Cathedral of St George
(1860-1905, in Neoclassical and Baroque styles)

Cathedral of St George interior with a line
waiting to venerate the icon

Iconostasis

In front of the cathedral stands Заветни крст/
Cross of the Holy Vow (18C), the oldest
surviving monument in Novi Sad

Bohemian Mural - Serbian Athens (2019)
depicts Svetozar Miletić, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
and Đura Daničić standing on the right

Споменик краљу Петру I/Monument to
King Peter I (2018, by Zoran Ivanović), it
commemorates the 100th anniversary of the
unification of Banat, Bačka, and Baranja
with the Kingdom of Serbia