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Summary: ALEKSANDAR BOOVI
RUICA CHURCH IN BELGRADE FORTRESS
The church popularly known as Ruica (Rose) is situated in the southeast of the eastern sector of the Fortress of Belgrade, close to the Arched Wall of the Zindan Gate complex, and forms a sacred space together with the chapel of St Petka
and an ancillary building. The origin of the present-day church building can be traced back to the gunpowder magazine
built during the Baroque-style reconstruction of the Fortress carried out according to the design of Nicolas Doxat de Morez
(Dmoret) in 172339. It served the same purpose until 1867, when the last Ottoman garrisons were withdrawn from Serbia,
and in 186770 was converted to serve religious purposes. Having sustained heavy damage in the 1915 artillery battering
of Belgrade, it was rebuilt in 192125 after a design by the Russian-born architect Nikola Krasnov. The icons for the iconostasis were painted by hieromonk Rafailo (Raphael) Momilovi and the wall paintings by another Russian immigrant
Andrey Bitsenko in 1938. From its consecration in 1867 until the end of the Second World War, Ruica was a military and
a garrison church. It was only after the war that worship services began to be conducted by the monastics and priests of the
Patriarchate and the Eparchy of Belgrade-Karlovci.

ILLUSTRATIONS
Fig. 1 Eastern part of the Fortress in the plans of 17231865:

Fig. 9 Ruica church: Interior

a. In 172325 (Stockholm, Statens Arkiv)

Fig. 10 Ruica church, south wall: Sermon on the Mount

b. In 1740 (Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, S X 47083/19)

Fig. 11 Ruica church, vault: Resurrection

c. In 1789 (Vienna, Kriegsarchiv, G I b 40-3)

Fig. 12 Ruica church, vault: Birth of the Virgin

d. In 186265 (reconstruction after the plan kept in the National Library

of Serbia, Maps and Plans Collection, 332)

Fig. 13 Ruica church, vault: Nativity

Fig. 2 Ruica church in 1904

Fig. 14 Ruica church, vault: Dormition of the Virgin

Fig. 15 Ruica church, vault, west: Sts Cyril and Methodius

Fig. 3 Ruica church in 1915

Fig. 16 Ruica church, vault, west: Sts Maximus, Arsenius and Sava II

Fig. 4 Ruica church in 1942

Fig. 17 Ruica church, vault, west: Sts Stefan the First-Crowned, Jovan
Vladimir, Milutin and Stefan of Deani

Fig. 5 Ruica church today

Fig. 6 Ruica church in 1904:

Fig. 18 Ruica church, vault, west: Sts Alexander Nevsky, Vladimir,

Equal-to-the-Apostles, and Alexey, Metropolitan of all Russia

a. Floor plan

Fig. 19 Ruica church, vault, east: Sts Basil of Ostrog, Peter of Cetinje
and Naum of Ohrid

b. Longitudinal section
c. East elevation

Fig. 20 Ruica church, vault, east: Holy King Lazar, Holy King Uro, St
Stefan (Despot Stefan Lazarevi) and St Theoctistus (King Dragutin)

d. West elevation
e. Cross section
f. North elevation

Fig. 21 Ruica church, vault, east: Sts Basil the Great, Gregory the
Theologian, and John Chrysostom

Fig. 7 Ruica church: Side entrance

Fig. 22 Ruica church, vault, east: Sts Simeon the Myroblite and Sava

Fig. 8 Ruica church: Iconostasis

Fig. 23 Ruica church: Chandelier

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