ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH AND THE PARISH HOUSE

St. George's Church and the parish house

The present-day Orthodox Church of St. George was built on the site of an earlier church from the 19th century that was destroyed in the Homeland War, and Metković itself has been the center of the parish since the mid-19th century. The new church, built at the beginning of the 21st century, is a concrete building with a cross-shaped floor plan, the interior is vaulted with a barrel vault, and the central part with a dome, which follows the tradition of Byzantine sacral architecture. In the churchyard there is also a cemetery for Orthodox believers, which consists of individual stone tombstones in the shape of a cross from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Next to the church is the house of the Metković parish priest, which follows the forms of traditional architecture.