The Chapel of Lady Lostnick is by the Institute for the Protection and Use of the Cultural and Historical and Natural Heritage of the Tuzla Canton recovered in 1988. year, and for many years there was a petition list to the National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is located in the hamlet of Marići, the medium jerk, according to the available data, was built at the end of the 17th century, as a traditional “house over the magazine”.
According to the Institute, at 18. century the chapel becomes a spiritual and pastoral center for the Catholics of the Tuzla region. The basic function of this folk sacral space has been preserved to this day. On several occasions, he was renovated, and in 2005. thoroughly reconstructed. Also, then a small platter for gathering believers is arranged, and a wooden tower with a bell is placed.
Chapel of Lady Lipnick: National Monument from 17. century pic.twitter.com/gfte5lbjgd
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The Chapel of Lady Lipnick is about 250 years. In the period after the “Vienna War” (1683-1699), between Austria and the Ottoman Kaphan, the Lostnica Chapel was the seat of Tuzla parish and on that period, the Lostnicka chapel acts as a spiritual and pastoral center of the entire Tuzla region. During the last two centuries, the chapel in Lipnica became a significant prayer and votional-Mariological sanctuary of the Tuzla region and a wider region.
The facility of the chapel of external gabarite measures 6.13 x 7.83 m, has a basement floor below the southern half and ground floor. It is covered from four sides. The ground floor walls derived from a wooden basin structure with a filling of the wooden shepherde plastered with muddy mortar with the final processing of the lime mortar. The roof structure is wooden.
This chapel visits a large number of pilgrims during the holidays of the Malay Our Lady, which is happening 8. September. But not only local Catholics come but people of other religions that find spiritual peace, and those who want to visit the site of great spiritual and cultural significance.
(Vijesti.ba)
