It is one of the most significant historical monument of the town. It is located near the entrance of Stip, across river Bregalnica. According historical data, the bridge was constructed in 1672. It is rear example of Turkish architecture. The bridge was named after the sultan Kucuk Emir. During the first Balkan war (1912) bridge was a demarcation line that separated town on Serbian and Bulgarian part. Suburbs on the left side of the bridge were under Bulgarians while the suburbs on the right side under Serbian domination.Because of the water level in the river, these bridge in the past had very important communication role, but today with continuous decrease of the water level of river Bregalnica, it has more historical and archeological value. |
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Main religious object of Muslim population in Stip. While the mosque Husa Medin Pasha has historic significance Kadin Ana mosque is in use and serves as a facility in which members of Islamic religion perform their Muslim religious traditions. It was built in the 19-th century. |
From historical point of view, location across the river Otinja and the school “Vanco Prke”, on the right side of the river bench was always a natural place for a city square. These location in this purpose was visiable on some archive photographs.During the 70’s, marbel cubes were used for decoration. But because of the destructions and damages through the past decades, it faces reconstruction. According the plan of local government, reconstruction and new decoration of the city square is among the top projects in the next years. It is a part of the larger project that includes reconstruction of “Vanco Prke” street above the square in the walkaway zone, that will be very popular for all citizens and tourist visitors. |
Cultural wealth of Stip is enormous. The city and the nearby area recorded more than 200 churches. Pride of the town is the church of St. Nikola, which is based on Bregalnica’s Diocese. Many of the churches are older than 9 to 10 centuries, and there are examples of such churches as St. Jovan Krstitel which dates from 1350. |
The church of the Holy Mother of God is one of the architectural masterpieces of the well-known Macedonian constructor Andrea Damjanov. It has the shape of a basilica, with a three-nave disposition and an interesting design of the roof with three different layers.The interior is wide and decorated with floral motifs and animal figures. The iconostasis and the baldachin are carved. According to the sign over the south entrance, the temple was renovated in 1850.
The people of Štip talk about the building of the church by the Damjanovi brothers. It took 31 years to build. The material was brought by oxen and the outside columns were made and processed by hand.
A gallery of rare icons was formed on the second floor of the church. Today, there is a male and female altar, because nuns used to live in the church. The church has a hiding place where Goce Delcev used to hide. In the walls of the church there are two more hiding places where 30 other men used to hide. There was a tunnel under the throne of the archbishop that led from the church to the houses in the village. This is how they escaped from the Turks. |
The church of the Holy Savior is located on the left bank of the Otinja River, on the road to Novo Selo. Standing on a flat rock, it draws attention with its small dimensions and peaceful beauty. The church has one dome and it is assumed to have been built by the duke Dimitar in 1369. The fresco ensembles from the 14-th Century have not been saved. The second painting inside the church is from 1601 done by the fresco painter Jovan, who put his signature in Greek. Around the church there is a necropolis with graves. from different times. |
One of the most representative sacral objects, built by the proto-master Andreja Damjanov, is the church St.Nikola in Štip, built on the site of the old Sifieva church dedicated to St. Nikola (1341) by the master constructor Gjorgi Novakov-Dzongar. For the renewal-rebuilding of this church witnesses the inscription board built-in above the main western entrance, whose text says that the church was constructed in the time of the Metropolitan of Kustendil and Stip - Ignatija in 1867.The upper floor of the church in 1990 was transformed into a valuable gallery of icons.Today it is main church and a seat place of Bregalnica eparhy. |
The road that leads to the fortress, on the east side of the hill, under the Veterans’ Monument is the one, which reaches the church of Holy Archangel Michael. It is a small medieval church, built in the first half of the 14-th Century by the Protosevastes Hrelja and in 1334, Czar Dusan devoted it to Hilandar. The church has one dome on a cross-shaped basis. The outside walls are decorated with blocks of processed stone and the only entrance is on the west side. The church is not fresco painted.
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On the right bank of the river Otinja, on the south side of the hill where the "Isar" is located, a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist was built in 1350. It is a single-room church with no cupola. Its construction was supported by Jovan Probistipovic, Despot Oliver’s landowner. Today only fragments remain from the fresco paintings. The paintings of Czar Konstantin and Czarina Elena can be seen on the south wall around the entrance. |
In the church of St.Nikola, the gallery was formed in 1990 and accommodates rich fund of art works from the churches and monasteries from Bregalnica region. The gallery exhibition, enriched with the icons of the great iconostasis of the church’s naos, the fresco-decorations and abundantly engraved baldachin (semicircular board leaned on four poles in the altar where the holy communion is exercised), are real rarities for the historical fine arts church past on this soil.
This exhibition is comprised by art works-icons, done by many of our known and anonymous zographs (icon painters) who worked in the churches and monasteries of Eastern Macedonia in the 17th, 17-th and 19-th century, as well as old printed church books, gilded putiri (glasses for communion), engraved silver crosses, relics, and other valuable sacral exhibits.
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