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Destroyed And Desecrated Serbian Orthodox Churches In Kosovo And Metohia (1999-2000) |
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69. ST PARASCEVA'S CHURCH, in Gojbulja near Vucitrn
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The Church of St Parasceva stands in Gojbulja, at the foot of Mount Kopaonik, 3 km north-east of Vucitrn. The new church was built at the village cemetery, on the remains of an ancient, 1-2 m high wall, in August 1986 with preserved old arch, which vaulted the western narthex. The church had a rectangular ground plan, a semi-round apse and a smallish narthex. The old walls had traces of fresco plaster on them. There are also remains of an old Serb cemetery from the first half of the 18th century.
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After the French KFOR soldiers had arrived, the church was vandalized, looted, desecrated and set on fire, by Albanian extremists, in June 1999. The parish house was also looted.
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