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Basilica of the Heart of Jesus
Basilica of the Heart of Jesus
Bazilika Srca Isusova
	45°48′32″N 15°58′56″E / 45.80889°N 15.98222°E
Location	Zagreb
Country	Croatia
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Religious order	Society of Jesus
Website	www.zupa-presvetog-srca-isusova.hr
History
Consecrated	15 December 1902
Relics held	Tomb of blessed Ivan Merz
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Janko Holjac [hr] (building); Hermann Bollé (main altar);
Architectural type	Basilica
Style	Neo-Baroque
Groundbreaking	27 August 1901
Completed	1902
Specifications
Capacity	c. 3000
Length	59.13 m
Width	24.65 m
Nave width	13.5 m
Nave height	20 m

The Basilica of the Heart of Jesus (Croatian: Bazilika Srca Isusova) is a Roman Catholic basilica located in Palmotićeva street of Zagreb, Croatia. It is dedicated to the Sacred Heart, and was designed by the Croatian architect Janko Holjac [hr] in the neo-Baroque style.

The Basilica of the Heart of Jesus is the second largest church in Zagreb, after the Zagreb Cathedral. It is used by the Jesuits.^[4]

History

The construction of the church is tied to the arrival of Jesuits in Zagreb in 1855. For this purpose, the archbishop Juraj Haulik gave a sum of 60,000 florins in 1860. However, political and economic conditions were not favorable for Haulik's idea, and it was revived four decades later by archbishop Juraj Posilović, who donated an additional sum of 12,000 florins. In 1898, a land parcel was bought for the construction of the church in the Palmotićeva street in the Lower town of Zagreb. The basilica of Heart of Jesus was finished and consecrated in 1902, with the construction itself taking slightly over a year.^[2]^[8] In 1941, the church received the status of minor basilica.^[4]

The church was heavily damaged in the 2020 Zagreb earthquake.^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b Szabo 2002, Kupnja građevinskog zemljišta i početak gradnje Bazilike.
^ ^a ^b Ugrin, Ivan (14 October 2002). "Simbol hrvatskih isusovaca". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 5 April 2018.
^ "Zagreb - Palmotićeva". zg-nadbiskupija.hr (in Croatian). Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus". infozagreb.hr. Zagreb Tourist Board. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
^ Maruševski 1991, p. 345.
^ Maruševski 1991, p. 342.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Szabo 2002, Gradnja Bazilike.
^ Szabo 2002.
^ "Strašno razaranje i urušavanje u crkvi Srca Isusova u Palmotićevoj u Zagrebu". Večernji list (in Croatian). 22 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

Sources

Maruševski, Olga (August 1991). "Bazilika Srca Isusova u Zagrebu" [The Basilica of the Heart of Jesus in Zagreb] (PDF). Obnovljeni život (in Croatian). 46 (3–4): 342–351. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
Szabo, Agneza (2002). "Političke i crkvene okolnosti u doba gradnje Bazilike Srca Isusova u Zagrebu. Drugi dolazak Isusovaca u Zagreb" [Political and ecclesiastic condition in the time of building the Basilica of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Zagreb. The second arrival of the Jesuits in Zagreb]. Godišnjak Društva za povijest Zagrebačke Nadbiskupije Tkalčić (in Croatian) (6): 191–230. ISSN 1331-3517. Retrieved 5 April 2018.