Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo

History

Exterior

Interior

• The main altar was designed by Josip Vancaš and made from Grisignano marble. It rests on four small columns of red Tyrolean marble. The seven niches behind the altar depict in the central position: Sacred Heart of Jesus; on the left side: St. Joseph and St. Francis of Assisi; on the right side: St. Michael and the prophet Elijah; on the extremities: statue of an angel.
• Side altars: in the western aisle is an altar dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. In the eastern aisle, an altar dedicated to the apostles of the Slavs, St. Cyril and St. Methodius.
• Pulpit: the pulpit is mounted on a richly decorated pedestal. The enclosure shows in the central part Jesus as teacher, flanked on each side by two Evangelists.
• Frescoes: in 1886 the frescoes were commissioned to Alexander Maximilian Seitz. Due to his deteriorating health he could only finish the designs in 1887. The execution was undertaken by his assistant Alberto Rohden.
• * on the wall of the western bell tower : the Coronation of Mary. The lower part of the fresco shows a father, mother and child in national dress, surrounded by St. Francis of Assisi and St. Dominic.
• * on the wall of the eastern bell tower: the Resurrection of Jesus.
• * in the vault: a depiction of the Sermon on the Mount and a depiction of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, both by Ante Martinović.
• * in the indentations above the vaults: oil paintings in chiaroscuro of the Doctors of the Church, done on canvas in Rome by Lodovico Seitz, son of Alexander Seitz.
• Organ: manufactured by the Heferer Company of Zagreb. It has mechanical tractions, two manuals, pedal and 22 sound registers.
• Grave of archbishop Stadler, the first archbishop of Vrhbosna by the sculptor Marin Studin.
• The five stained-glass windows in the apse were designed by Josip Vancaš and executed by the Tiroler Glasmalerei of Innsbruck.
• The stained-glass windows in the side aisles were executed by the Vienna workshop of the Tiroler Glasmalerei.

  Burials

• Ivan Šarić
• Josip Stadler
• Marko Jozinović

  Gallery