Church of St Roch, Zlarin

The Church of St Roch stands on Zlarin, behind the parish church, in the City of Šibenik, in Šibenik-Knin County. It is a tiny votive building that speaks of a difficult period in Šibenik's past, when plague took many lives.

According to the inscription above the main portal, the church was built after the greatest plague in Šibenik in 1649 by Marko Bratić, in memory of his father. It is a simple building of stone, pointed on the outside, correctly oriented and of rectangular plan without an apse. On the facade is a portal with an inscription, above which is a simple oculus, and at the top are a profiled slab and the remains of a bell gable. It probably had an open wooden gabled roof. Today it is badly damaged, most probably because it was not maintained after losing its original purpose.

The church is a protected cultural property and is entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-3350.

Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: DGU (centre of the settlement).