{"id":209237,"date":"2026-05-06T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=209237"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:04:14","slug":"a-place-where-serbs-feel-at-home-abroad-saint-sava-church-in-london-has-been-gathering-our-community-for-decades-and-it-is-located-right-next-to-the-home-of-bishop-nikolaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/a-place-where-serbs-feel-at-home-abroad-saint-sava-church-in-london-has-been-gathering-our-community-for-decades-and-it-is-located-right-next-to-the-home-of-bishop-nikolaj\/","title":{"rendered":"“A PLACE WHERE SERBS FEEL AT HOME ABROAD”: Saint Sava Church in London has been gathering our community for decades, and it is located right next to the home of Bishop Nikolaj!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Lancaster Road, in the London neighborhood of Notting Hill, lies the Saint Sava Church and the Home of Bishop Nikolaj (Velimirovi\u0107), which for decades have represented a gathering place for Serbs in Great Britain and guardians of cultural, faithful, and national identity. Saint Sava Church in London is one of several Orthodox Serbian churches in Great Britain, and as of 2024, it is part of the Diocese of Britain and Ireland.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parish trustee Marko Ga\u0161i\u0107 points out for Tanjug that the number of Serbs in London is difficult to determine because, as he notes, people come and go, but what they have in common is that they come to the church parish, which is the center of their gathering in the capital of Great Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The church community has its own unique history; mostly people from those parts of Krajina, today’s Bosnia and Croatia, came here, whose families perished for their faith and nation. They came here with a high national and religious consciousness, with priests in their ranks,” Ga\u0161i\u0107 said, adding that even today, the church successfully looks after its parishioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The church, as he says, also had the task of preserving everything abroad that was, as he stated, considered most endangered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is best summarized when the archpriest of our church asked Saint Nikolaj by letter whether he should place a plaque for General Dra\u017ea Mihajlovi\u0107 in the church; the answer then was: ‘Of course, you shouldn’t even ask, that should be placed in the church,'” he said, assessing that the church managed to maintain a religious feeling in people, but also that which is national and cultural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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