crkva Okolista

The temple of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Empress Jelena in Okolište is the temple of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which belongs to the Metropolitanate of Dabro-Bosnia. It is located on the Okolišta pass, Foča, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The temple in Okolište, built in 1938 on the pass between the villages of Jošanica and Slatina, twenty kilometers east of Foča, where the Miraculous Icon of the Virgin of Čajnička was kept for a while during the Second World War, was rather dilapidated, so the two good hosts , Milivoje-Mićo and Gordan Vilotić, who live near it, did their best and generally renovated it, while a hall for the faithful was built next to the temple. At the suggestion of Metropolitan Nikolaj, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church awarded these two godfathers and restorers of the church the Order of Saint Sava III degree, and Vasilije Visnjic and Milan Stanojevic, who also helped with this renovation, received hierarchical letters of thanks. The restoration of the temple in Okolište was helped by other believers and people of good will, as they had wholeheartedly helped her before, deceased in the Lord: Budimir Pljevaljčić, Milovan Đorđević and Gojko Vilotić. The iconostasis in walnut woodcut was made by Mr. Zivko Erakovic from Banjan near Niksic, and the icons are the work of nuns from the Brceli monastery. In the nearby village of Jošanica, a monument was erected on May 21 this year, consecrated to the victims, who were on the feast of the Transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas, on May 22, 1992, was killed by Muslim forces. In the attack on Jošanica, at half past five in the morning, all Serbs were killed, who found themselves in Jošanica that morning, mostly asleep. Among the victims were 37 civilians - women, children and the elderly - and 36 Republika Srpska Army fighters. The youngest victim, Danka, was only two, and the oldest, grandmother Stojka, was 75 years old ....

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