Church of Preobraženje, Dajići

Church of Preobraženje Црква Преображења Crkva Preobraženja
Church of Preobraženje, Dajići.
Religion
Affiliation	Serbian Orthodox
Leadership	Institute for Cultural Heritage Preservation Kraljevo
Location
Location	Dajići, Ivanjica, Serbia
Geographic coordinates	43°24′25″N 20°17′26″E
Architecture
Type	Serbo-Byzantine
Website
http://zavodkraljevo.rs/

Church of the Preobraženje is located in the hamlet of Middle River, village of Dajići, municipality Ivanjica. It is on the list of protected cultural property and has the status of cultural monuments.

Architecture

It was built as a cemetery chapel with harmonious proportions, a single-nave with a semicircular apse in a beam, low stone walls, vault and high-shingle roof. The church is surrounded by tall tombstones. One of the few examples of churches at Old Vlac, which the rock material repeats the form of wooden churches. In the church of Preobraženje there is a chandelier of wrought iron fine handicrafts and marble court with sanctified water, probably commissioned for this church. Dinning table and a marble baptismal font in the altar area from pre-Turkish period shows that the church was built on the foundations of an older Christian churches. The church in its present form was built in the late 18th and early 19th century, during the settlement of the village Dajići.

External links

• Republic Institute for Cultural Heritage Belgrade
• Immovable cultural property
• List of monuments