The municipality of Pljevlja will announce an international competition for the design of a monument to Patriarch Varnava, which will be built on the square of the same name, next to the church of Sveta Petka, not far from the city center.
The Municipality said that the competition will be announced immediately after the decision on the construction of the memorial for this year is adopted today at the session of the local parliament.
In the meantime, the reconstruction project of Patriarch Varnava Square was completed, and in the previous days work was done on the removal of temporary buildings, which were located on the part of the square that will be reconstructed.
So far, three temporary buildings have been removed, and the removal of the fourth was stopped after the owner filed a complaint with the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property.
President of the Municipal Assembly of Pljevlja Jovana Tošić she told "Vijesti" that this item will be on the agenda.
"The provision of Article 12 of the Law on Monuments prescribes that the proposal of the Program be submitted to the competent authority in order to give consent in relation to the erection of monuments, and the competent authority is obliged to consider and adopt the appropriate acts, no later than within 60 days from submission of proposals. If the competent authority does not pass an act on the program proposal, it is considered that there is consent to the Program proposal. The deadline of 60 days from the submission of the proposal to the competent Ministry has expired. Also from the Minister of Culture and Media Tamara Vujović I received information that she signed the consent, but it has not yet been delivered to the competent Secretariat", said Tošić.
Patriarch Varnava, whose secular name is Petar Rosić, was born in Pljevlja in 1880 and was the 40th patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1930 to 1937. He died suddenly in 1937 under mysterious circumstances, at the moment when the concordat between the Vatican and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was voted in the Assembly of Yugoslavia, which he opposed.
Previously, he was the president of the municipality Dario Vranes told "Vijesta" that the monument would be built in the middle of the square that bears Varnava's name, that is, the intersection near the church of Sveta Petka, not far from his birthplace.
He said that the conceptual solution includes the construction of a statue of Patriarch Barnabas blessing the city.
"Not all things have been defined yet, but it is being done at a good pace. We will do everything to make the entire square an exceptionally good ambient unit. This place is actually the identity, cultural and spiritual center of the city. Less than 100 meters from this place, the most famous Pljevljak of all time - the Serbian patriarch Varnava Rosić - was born. I thank God that we have finally reached the historic moment to perpetuate the character, name and work of our famous patriarch Varnava in a just and dignified way", said Vraneš earlier.
He previously submitted a proposal for the construction of a monument to Patriarch Varna Rosić Ermin Harbić at the time he was a member of the Democratic Party of Socialists, as well as the Democratic Party and the Serbian Cultural Center.
Explaining his proposal, Harbić said that in this way the Municipality of Pljevlja would pay tribute to one of the most prominent citizens of Pljevlja. At that time, Harbić's proposal was met with numerous criticisms.
A study recently carried out by the Faculty of Technical Sciences from Novi Sad suggested as a priority the construction of a roundabout at the intersection of Tršova, Tanasi Pejatović, Mirko Pejatović, Avalska, Vuk Karadžić and Prvo Decembar. Democrats believe that the Varnava monument should be built in parallel with the reconstruction of this intersection.
In addition to this, the Program foresees the erection of a memorial to Predrag Leovac, the second lieutenant who died on April 14 at Košare in Kosovo. The memorial will be erected by the Non-Governmental Association Cultural Center "Predrag Peđa Leovac". It is not specified in which location.
Democratic Montenegro previously announced that it would submit an initiative to build a monument to Petar Petrović Njegoš in Pljevlja.
"As November 13, the birthday of Petar II Petrović Njegoš, on the initiative of the Democrats, was declared the Day of Culture in Montenegro, our committee club will initiate the construction of a monument dedicated to our greatest poet, thinker and ruler at one of the next sessions", the Committee Club announced of Democratic Montenegro in the Assembly of the Municipality of Pljevlja.
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