The Christian Heritage of KOSOVO and METOHIJA
The Historical and Cultural Heartland of the Serbian people

Sunday 10 May 2015
2pm, St Sava Church, 89-91 Lancaster Road, London, W11 1QQ
7pm, Kings College London, Kings College Chapel, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

This 1000 page hardbound book in full colour, is illustrated with over 900 colour reproductions of all Serbian most significant figures, monasteries, churches, frescoes, icons and other artifacts. It is a living testimony to the phenomenal efforts of the Serbian Orthodox Church to create an exceptional spiritual and material culture, preserving its centuries-old monuments and the Christian heritage of Kosovo and Metohija. The book will be presented on Sunday 10 May 2015 at two venues:

- at 2pm in St Sava Church, 89-91 Lancaster Road, London, W11 1QQ, in Serbian by

• His Grace Bishop Maxim of Western American Diocese
• Archimandrite Sava, Abbot of the Decani Monastery, Kosovo and Metohija

*A Devine Liturgy at 10.30am will precede the presentation

- at 7pm in Kings College Chapel, Kings College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, in English by

• His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Bishop of Diokleia
• His Grace Bishop Maxim of Western American Diocese
• Archimandrite Sava, Abbot of the Decani Monastery, Kosovo and Metohija

The St Sava Church choir is also taking part and there will be refreshments after the presentations.

Official poster

On Sunday 26 April 2015, we played the Last post for Lady Paget and the brave women in various foreign medical missions who risked their lives in Serbia and on the fronts during the Great War. After the Liturgy, at 12.30, there was a commemoration in St Sava Church. We continued at 13.00 in the Lady Paget Room with a few short speeches and we ended by playing the Last Post and "Tamo daleko". Refreshments was provided after the event.

Last Post is a project which brings together music and memory to mark the First World War Centenary. It is delivered by Superact, a non-profit arts organisation, established in 2006 which uses creativity to improve the health and wellbeing of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and abilities. The Last Post project 2015 has been awarded funding from the Department of Communities and Local Government in England, the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure in Northern Ireland and the Heritage Lottery Fund to roll out the project in England and Northern Ireland in 2015 (www.superact.org.uk/thelastpost).

The video recording of the event is available here.

Serbian Library in London invites you to "Serbian culture and language", a lecture that will be given by Sava Peic. The lecture, which will be in English, will cover Serbian literature and people who made an impact on creative writing, literacy and Serbian literature. Sava Peic will also talk about new Serbian grammar and phonetic Azbuka - the most advanced script for reading and writing developed by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. The lecture will take place on 28 March from 11am to 1pm at Dawes Road Hub, 20 Dawes Road, London, SW6 7EN. Donations: £5 including tea or coffee. Please call Olga Gakovic on 0208 740 4109 to confirm your attendance.

On Thursday 19th March 2015 at 7.30pm in the Lady Paget hall, St. Sava Church in London (89 Lancaster Road, London, W11 1QQ) "Lady Paget" book launch was organised. This is the first book about Lady Leila Paget (1881-1958) published in Serbia. The author, publicist, writer and private publisher Natasa Markovic talked about her book and the interesting details from the biography of the famous British humanitarian who treated the wounded in the Serbian army in the Balkan Wars and the World War I. After the World War II ended, her home in London became a meeting place for the Serbian political refugees. She financially helped the setup of the Serbian church and the Serbian club in London. A refreshment was organised after the book launch.

We would like to inform all friends of the late Nenad Petrovic, former president of the Church Council and great benefactor of our church community, that the commemoration will take place on Saturday 21 May 2016 at 2pm at the Serbian Orthodox Cemetery in Brookwood. We are organising a bus to transport our parishioners to the Brookwood Cemetery (St Cyprian's Avenue, Brookwood, Woking, GU24 0BL). Departure at 12.30pm from St Sava Church.

The Orthodoxy week is one of the important religious events in the calendar of the Orthodox Church. On that occasion, the Orthodox Church celebrates the victory over the iconoclast heresy which was tearing the Church apart in the 7th and 8th centuries. With all the autocephalous Orthodox Churches that exist in London taking part, the Vesper prayer (the all-Orthodox Vesper) was celebrated on Sunday, March 1, as is customary by tradition and as the practice is. This year, following the usual order of hosting the event, the Vesper service was celebrated in the Serbian Church of Saint Sava. The prayers were led by Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Grace Bishop of Great Britain and Scandinavia, The Right Reverend Dositey, Archibishop Elisey of Sourozh, Archibishop Anatoly of Kerch, The Right Reverend Athanasios, Bishop of Tropaeou.