Tomislav2010.02.21 [22:52]
Wooden Church in the village Gorobilje
Not far from Pozega and Arilje Gorobilje in the village, is one of the smallest, and oldest church in Serbia lodge, dedicated to Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Built by the 1705th The novodoseljeni residents, pridošli in this region after the migration of the Patriarch Arsenije Čarnojević. The size of the church then had to answer the demands of the Turkish authorities, which are prescribed to''rajinska places of worship can not be higher than the Turkish horsemen, and higher than the down''. Therefore, the church was very low, without stone foundations, some buried in the ground, with a small door. More the tradition by which the villagers were transferred to skrovitije and forests covered the place, when they learned that the Turks imagined that the burn.
The first time was destroyed and burned around the 1800th and renewed after ten years. Repeated it several more times to 1832nd Mr. Listed first bell brought from Austria. In addition to the church at the beginning of the twentieth century and built the school, but she later moved to the center of the village.
The church is located next to the village cemetery where you can see a very old tombstones. It was built of oak brvana, thickness of 10 to 12 centimeters, which were eventually merged usecima (in Cert). Today, this important monument is completely restored and decorated, covered with a syndrome, a new bell tower was built near the church
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