Discover a place of spiritual comfort and architectural beauty in slatine's churches.
Church of st. Josipa is a visual masterpiece with a tower 52 m high, built in 1919 in the Neo-Gothic style. On the main altar in the central recess is the patron saint of the parish, St. Peter. Joseph, and the figures of the Slavic apostles Cyril and Methodius, as supatrons of the parish. Above, in the niches between the towers, there is a statue of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to the left and right are the figures of St. Peter. Anna and Joachim – a reminder of the old Slatina chapel.
The Church of Bl. Ivana Merza was built in 2014 in a modern style, an imposing building that looks like a nave from which the Word of God is proclaimed. The parish of Bl. Ivana Merza in Slatina is the first parish in Croatia and the world to bear the name of Blessed Ivan Merz in its titular. His life is an example of courage, intellectual devotion and fervent love of God that encourages one to live the faith.
Experience spiritual beauty by visiting the parish temple of Saints Apostlepeter and Paul. On the site of today's church, the Orthodox inhabitants of Slatina built a church in baroque syllable in 1747, the most beautiful event of which was a tower with richly decorated arches. The greatest value of the church was the iconostasis painted in 1758 by the famous master of iconostasis Jovan Četirević Grabovan. The church was demolished during World War II, and in 1978 the present one was built in its place.
