Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church (Jackson, California)

Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church
Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church
Pravoslavna crkva svetog Save; Православна црква светог Саве
	Serbian Orthodox
History
Dedication	Saint Sava
Administration
Archdiocese	Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	724 N. Main, Jackson, California
Coordinates	38°21′21″N 120°46′31″W / 38.35583°N 120.77528°W
Area	1.2 acres (0.49 ha)
Built	1894
Architect	Thompson, Mr.
NRHP reference No.	86000385
Added to NRHP	March 6, 1986

The Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church (

stained glass windows and use of icons still give it a distinctive Eastern Orthodox character. The church has been used for Serbian-American religious and social activities since its opening and is now part of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America.^[2]

Next to the church there is the

California Gold Rush

prospectors and parishioners and their descendants are buried.

In 1922 there was a mining disaster that took place that impacted the town as a whole, but especially Italian and Serbian communities in Jackson. There is a monument to eleven Argonaut Miners buried at Saint Sava's of Jackson. The mass burial was held on September 22, 1922, for 47 migrant miners, among them 17 were from Italy, eleven were from Serbian lands in the Balkans, and the others were from other European countries, namely Spain, Sardinia, Austria, Germany, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. Two decades later, another disaster occurred in Montana at the Smith Mine where 74 miners perished, among them several Serbs.

The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 6, 1986.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Berriman, Clyde R. (November 1, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church". National Park Service. Retrieved July 24, 2013. Accompanied by photos

Sources

Vuković, Sava (1998). History of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America and Canada 1891–1941. Kragujevac: Kalenić.

External links

Media related to Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Jackson, California at Wikimedia Commons

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. CA-1870, "Serbian Church, Jackson, Amador County, CA"

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Berriman, Clyde R. (November 1, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church". National Park Service. Retrieved July 24, 2013. Accompanied by photos

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