CHURCH ST. TEREZIJA, NOVA GRADIŠKA

The first brick church and valuable Baroque buildings throughout Nova Gradiska.

City of New Gradiska based 1748th year. It was founded and grown under the auspices of the Military Frontier. Already 1754th he began building the first brick building - the church of St. Theresa, that its architectural features belongs important monuments of sacral architecture of the late Baroque in Slavonia. Church of St. Theresa, although the oldest and most valuable Baroque buildings and throughout Nova Gradiska and situated in the middle of the village on the main square, is completely ignored. Inappropriate placing bulky buildings department store in it? Zinoj close to deliberate after the Second World War sought to diminish the value of the church. Today, in a dilapidated old woman hardly recognize the beauty that had once shone in the midst of a new, mostly wooden village.
Information about the start of construction of this church, originally intended to be Chapel vojničkoga Staff (chaplaincy was established in 1755th years.), Located in the chronicle of the Franciscan monastery in Cernik.