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  • Back of the jeep painted by Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley...Bible verse: John 3:16--Love Bible Love
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  • Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
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  • Detail of 1930s GMC truck by Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
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  • Mainbox with heart created by Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
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  • "The Holy Bible" by Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
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  • Heart with Love created by Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
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  • Inside the Salvation Mountain created by Leonard Knight out  by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
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  • Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
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  • Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain with with art mailbox out by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
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  • Hood of the jeep painted by Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley...Bible verse: John 3:16--Love Bible Love
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  • Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain with with art mailbox out by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
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  • Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight is a gentle and friendly man who is sharing his passion for God with all comers in the Imperial Valley.
    angier_0502-imp-5307.jpg
  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Mosaic of the Theotokos, Mother of God, Monastery New Gracanica, Third Lake, Illinois<br />
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The chapel is dedicated to the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God
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  • Cleaning storm, god beams, Madison Range, Gallatin County, Montana
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  • Started in the 1980s Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif., is a cacophony of color in tribute to God's Love.
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  • Started in the 1980s Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif., is a cacophony of color in tribute to God's Love.
    angier-1004-salvation_mountain-4057P.jpg
  • Started in the 1980s Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif., is a cacophony of color in tribute to God's Love.
    angier-1004-salvation_mountain-4015.jpg
  • Started in the 1980s Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif., is a cacophony of color in tribute to God's Love.
    angier-1004-salvation_mountain-3972.jpg
  • Inside the museum of Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif. God is Love.
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  • travels with Miloje--Adriatic coast--Rezevici Monastery north of Bar<br />
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Mother of God mosaic fountain (Theotokos)<br />
<br />
Manastir Rezevici, 13h century
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  • God and Man's antennas at Santuari de Cura, Mallorca...Old style and new style communications
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • travels with Miloje--Adriatic coast--Rezevici Monastery north of Bar<br />
<br />
Mother of God mosaic fountain (Theotokos)<br />
<br />
Manastir Rezevici, 13h century
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  • Red barn with cupola and weather vane and white trim. Painted on its face is: In God We Trust; Life-Liberty; behind shed with John Deere motif.
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  • Cleaning storm, god beams, Madison Range, Gallatin County, Montana
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
    angier-2103-0876.jpg
  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Dried out paint cans. Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Detail, The Lamb of God painting, Carmel Mission, California.
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  • Statue of a saint beneath the Lamb of God painting, Carmel Mission, California.
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  • Golden mosaic ceiling with the Mother of God, Theotokos, inside the chapel of the walled 10th century monastery of Hosios Loukas, Distomo, Greece
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  • Theotokos, Mother of God fresco, Interior, frescos, walled 10th century monastery of Hosios Loukas, Distomo, Greece
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  • Top of the domed ceiling, Pantocrator of Jesus Christ, Theotokos (Mother of God) within the walled 10th century monastery of Hosios Loukas, Distomo, Greece
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
    angier-2103-0871.jpg
  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
    angier-2103-0918.jpg
  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Salvation Mountain, where God Never Fails, the landmark created and painted, by Leonard Knight, near Niland, Imperial County, Calif.
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  • Theotokos, Mother of God fresco, Interior, frescos, walled 10th century monastery of Hosios Loukas, Distomo, Greece
    angier-1209-hosios_loukas-5643.JPG
  • Tribute to The Holy Bible at Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif.
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  • Sign at the entrance to Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif. proclaiming Gold Never Fails
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  • Dozen of paint cans at Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif.
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  • Interior room, Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif.
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  • Casita travel trailer and 1939 White truck painted by Leonard Knight at his Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif.
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  • Leonard Knight artist and creator of Salvation Mountain by the Slabs near Niland, Calif...Leonard Knight with his 1930s GMC art truck
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  • Mailbox with heart and the Sinner's Prayer at Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif...
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  • Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif. frame from the cab of his 1939 White truck.
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  • portrait of Leonard Knight inside a room at Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif.
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  • Interior room, Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, near Niland, Calif.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Families during prayer about to accept the sacrament of the Body of Christ at the end of the worship service.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Father Stephen Tumbas assists Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich in preparing the sacramental wine at the altar
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  • Fall cattle gathering in the central Sierra Nevada near Bear River Reservoir, Calif.
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  • Fall cattle gathering in the central Sierra Nevada near Bear River Reservoir, Calif.
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  • A sea of winter fog at the edge of the Great Central Valley at sunset envelops the oaks and fields in the SIerra Foothills.
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  • A sea of winter fog at the edge of the Great Central Valley at sunset envelops the oaks in the SIerra Foothills of Calif.
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  • Sign at Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, Slab City in California's Imperial Valley
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Father Stephen Tumbas assisted by Dan Stojanovich present bread as Miloje Milinkovic kisses the golden cross in respect.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Father Stephen Tumbas  assisted by Dan Stojanovich present the sacrament to the prepared faithful at the end of the worship service as a little girl take bread representing the Body of Christ.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Bringing the sacrament to the faithful from the altar.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Preparation of the sacrament at the altar by Father Stephen Tumbas, Dan Stojanovich and the Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich beneath the icons and frescoes painted by iconographer Miloje Milinkovic.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Father Stephen Tumbas, Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich, at the altar with arms raised during the preparation of the sacrament as Dan Stojanovich watches from behind.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich reads from his prayer book at the altar.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich watches as Father Stephen Tumbas kisses the cross at the altar and Dan Stojanovich holds another cross.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Father Stephen Tumbas spreads incense as Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich prays at the altar during the religious service.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich, Father Stephen Tumbas at the altar
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Betsy Tumbas lights a candle by the altar before the liturgy service conducted by the Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich, Father Stephen Tumbas assisted by Dan Stojanovich.
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  • Fall cattle gathering in the central Sierra Nevada near Bear River Reservoir, Calif.
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  • Late afternoon thunderstorm brings moisture to the San Rafael Reef, Utah, as crepuscular rays of the sun stream through the clouds.
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  • Late afternoon thunderstorm brings moisture to the San Rafael Reef, Utah, as crepuscular rays of the sun stream through the clouds.
    angier-0508-emery-3641.jpg
  • Late afternoon thunderstorm brings moisture to the San Rafael Reef, Utah, as crepuscular rays of the sun stream through the clouds.
    angier-0508-emery-3619.jpg
  • A sea of winter fog at the edge of the Great Central Valley at sunset envelopes the oaks and a fence in the SIerra Foothills of Calif.
    angier-0501-ama-1787.jpg
  • Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, Slab City in California's Imperial Valley
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Preparation of the sacrament of bread (body of Christ) at the altar by Father Stephen Tumbas, Dan Stojanovich and the Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich.
    angier_0810-st-sava-2341.jpg
  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich, Father Stephen Tumbas with their arms above the altar during the worship service.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif., sermon given by Father Stephen Tumbas at the altar
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Iconographer Miloje Milinkovic standing beneath his scaffolding in reverent silence during the Sunday liturgy service conducted by the.Very Reverend Stavrofor Miladin Garich, Father Stephen Tumbas and assisted by Dan Stojanovich.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...An elderly woman during a moment of prayer before the liturgy starts.
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  • Liturgy service at St. Sava Orthodox Church, Jackson, Calif...Father Stephen Tumbas  assisted by Dan Stojanovich present the sacrament to the prepared faithful at the end of the worship service as the Very Reverend Miladin Garich watches from behind.
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  • Crepuscular rays puncture the clouds and mountains in the mist on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Range, California
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  • Slava (feast) of St. Sebastian of Jackson, founder of St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, November 30, 2021 with the clergy–Fr. Marko, Fr. Steve, Archpriest Peter, Fr. Paul , Fr. Elijah and Deacon Dragan with Archbishop Benjamin from San Francisco heading the Hierarchal Divine Liturgy.
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  • Late afternoon thunderstorm brings moisture to the San Rafael Reef as crepuscular rays of the sun stream through the clouds, Utah.
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  • Candles at Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
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Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
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  • Interior and ikonstas of Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
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  • Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
<br />
Church where Miloje's father was baptized--<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
    angier-0909-mokra_gora-11649.JPG
  • Ditch diggers putting in a drainage pipe at Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
    angier-0909-mokra_gora-11578.JPG
  • Bell tower at Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century. Mokra Gora, Serbia.<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turkes and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still exist and there is a valuable iconostasis from the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icon of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
    angier-0909-mokra_gora-11538.JPG
  • Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
<br />
Church where Miloje's father was baptized--<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
    angier-0909-mokra_gora-11670.JPG
  • Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
    angier-0909-mokra_gora-11559.JPG
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