Church of St Peter, Dusina

The church of St Peter is the former parish church of the village of Dusina near Vrgorac, in Split-Dalmatia County. It is interesting as an indicator of life in the hinterland of the Makarska Riviera. It was originally built in 1600, and acquired its present form by an extension in 1754.

The building is single-nave, 10 metres long and 5.5 metres wide, and ends in the east with a rectangular apse. It is built of roughly worked but fairly regular stone ashlar, so the line where the church was extended can be clearly distinguished on the wall. On the main façade is a door in stone thresholds, and in the gable a bell gable with an oculus and two arched windows below. The side door on the south side bears the carved year of the extension. The roof is gabled and covered with Marseille tiles. In the sanctuary is the altar of St Peter, and his statue stands in the northern corner of the nave.

The church is a protected cultural good, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-5487.

Photo: KO Imotski, 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).