| The Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God was built between 1776 and 1780 by the Serbian and Greek communities of Zemun. The construction began in 1774 and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary's birth. The church was erected in the tradition of Serbian-Byzantine architecture with a nave and a semicircular apse. Its iconostasis was engraved in 1788 by Aksentije Markovic in a pure Baroque form, while the icons themselves were painted in 1815 by Arsenije Teodorovic, the famous Serbian artist of classicism. The bell tower was added in 1794. The first bell on it, still in place, was set in 1815 to commemorate victory over Napoleon. |