Construction of the St. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade: interaction between church and community within the framework of the project of national importance

The article is devoted to the history of the construction and decoration of the Church of St. Sava on Vračar (Belgrade, Serbia), which is one of the largest Orthodox churches in Europe. The author focuses on the organizational aspect of this process as an ambitious project of national importance, the implementation of which with long interruptions took over 120 years. In the political and economic conditions of each specific historical period, the project creatively combined the efforts of the church, state and society. The work involves some unpublished archival documents.