Gjakova
Đakovica is an urban settlement and the seat of the municipality of the same name in Serbia, located in the southwestern part of Kosovo and Metohija and belonging to the Peć Administrative District. According to the 2024 census, there were 41,809 inhabitants. It is located in the west of Metohija, between Peć and Prizren, while it is about 100 km from the Adriatic Sea coast.
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The old Church of the Holy Trinity in the city of Đakovica was intended to be a mausoleum, a memorial ossuary for thousands of Serbian children who died in Albania, as well as for the earthly remains of those who perished, were killed, or froze during the wars of 1912–1918.
This church was completed in 1940, but the April War of 1941 prevented its final completion and consecration. It was destroyed by Serbian godless communists in 1949 (blown up) on Savindan (January 27).
Its destruction was one of the most drastic examples of political antitheism by the new authorities established immediately after the end of World War II (as noted in the letter from the Bishop of Raška and Prizren, Mr. Vladimir, to the Serbian Patriarch Mr. Vikentije, “Destruction of the Church in Đakovica,” dated June 28, 1951, in: Endowments of Kosovo, pp. 803–804).