NEW CEMETERY

The new cemetery was built with the aim of moving the old Tasmajdan cemetery. The president of the Belgrade municipality, Vladan Djordjevic, is especially credited for the construction of the cemetery by initiating in 1884 to establish a new cemetery, following the example of European cemeteries, geometrically regular plots and wide alleys. The cemetery was opened in 1886 when the first burials began. A few years later, the Church of St. Nikola was built in the neo-Byzantine style according to the project of the architect Svetozar Ivačković.During the First World War, new plots were formed intended for military cemeteries: Serbian, French, Italian, Austro-Hungarian, and Bulgarian. After the First World War, the Alley of the Greats and the Alley of Arcades were built for important personalities. Memorial ossuaries were erected: the Serbian ossuary of the defenders of Belgrade in 1914-1918 and the Russian ossuary. When the Tasamajdan cemetery was closed in 1927, the remains of all the deceased were transferred.