'Slava' ceremony of the colonial merchants SIBA – A Visual Approach to Explore Everyday Life in Turkish and Yugoslav Cities, 1920s and 1930s Milanka Matić editor Nataša Mišković editor Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:siba.4062 Borba fotodokumentacija, Belgrade Vreme Borba0117 Photoarchive Borba Domestic Trade Exchange Annual Cycle Food Quest Building Interiors and Arrangement Equipment and Maintenance of BLDGS Organized Ceremonial Ecclesiatical Organization Photographic plate 1929-02-12 Svetozar Grdijan Grdijan, Svetozar Three dignitaries representing the merchants' organizations of Belgrade pose together with archpriest Božić and patriarch Dimitrije at a table prepared for the slava ritual. The table is covered with a white cloth and features a tall candlestick decorated with a tricoloured ribbon, a loaf of bread, a glass of red wine and a carefully bound bunch of basil on a plate filled with water. The glass cabinets behind are decorated for the occasion with a large kelim and an icon of three saints. Inside the cabinets, various stuffed birds are on display. The photograph appeared in the newspaper Vreme on 13 Feburary 1929 in its 'Belgrade Chronicle' section. From left to right: archpriest Božić, patriarch Dimitrije, Stevan Sekerezović, president of the Colonial Merchants' Association, Mihajlo Đurić, vice-president of the Chamber of Merchants, and Toma Radenković, president of the Merchants’ Association of Serbia. The colonial merchants celebrated their slava on the day of the Three Holy Hierarchs ('Sveta Tri Jerarha') in the hunters' room of the Hotel Imperijal. Not specified Not specified 90 130 Serbia Yugoslavia Belgrade Slava udruženja trgovaca-kolonijalista. Vreme 2566, 13 February 1929, 9.
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