Church of St Nicholas the Bishop and Parsonage Curia, Lipa

The Church of St Nicholas the Bishop and the parsonage curia are located in Lipa, in the municipality of Generalski Stol in Karlovac County. The complex rises on a hill by the Dobra river, not far from the Lipa curia, so it is also interesting for its position in the landscape.

The church is single-nave, with a rectangular ground plan, a polygonal sanctuary, a sacristy south of the sanctuary and nave, and a bell tower above the main façade. The furnishings consist of a neo-style main altar and two side altars from 1900 and a stone baptismal font from 1769. The parish in Lipa is mentioned in 1334. During the Turkish incursions the church suffered, so a new one was built in 1743, and in 1848 it was extended according to the design of the builder Antun Stiedl. The curia was built in 1842 as a single-storey building with a rectangular ground plan and simple exterior design.

The complex is a harmonious and stylistically uniform whole. It is a protected cultural good and is entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-5677.

Photo: K. O. Karlovac, CC BY-SA 3.0 hr, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: DGU (centre of the settlement).