Srpska heraldika
Srpsko zadužbinarstvo
Corpus Dramaticum
Serbian Monuments
Project holder
Kulturni element
An association founded in 2011 that brings together cultural professionals with the aim of preserving and promoting Serbian heritage in contemporary formats — from theatre and music productions to digital platforms.
About
Keepers of Serbian monumental memory
Why are we building this database?
Until now there has been no single public digital database of Serbian monuments regardless of state borders.
Official registers record the monuments on the territory of one state. Serbian heritage, however, is scattered across more than a dozen countries — from Mount Athos to Chicago, from Dalmatia to the Banat. Serbian Monuments brings this heritage together in one place, under common principles, in Serbian in both scripts and in English.
Our aim is for every endowment, shrine, memorial and stone marker of Serbian memory to have its own entry — with its history, location on the map, protection status and condition — so that it is known, accessible and protected.
A monument is not just stone — it is a memory entrusted to the stone.— motto of the project
- 123
- monuments in the database
- 14
- countries
- 7
- types of monuments
- 3
- versions: Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin and English
History of the project
From Serbian Cultural Heritage to Serbian Monuments
The project was launched in 2022 as the Serbian Cultural Heritage website, presenting the cultural heritage of Serbia in English, with the support of the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region.
Serbian Monuments is its successor. Instead of an overview of the heritage on the soil of one state, the new database brings together monuments of Serbian historical and cultural heritage wherever they stand. The address serbianculturalheritage.com now redirects permanently to the English version of srpskispomenici.rs.
Photographs
Free photographs, credited authors
Most of the photographs in the database come from Wikimedia Commons and are published under free licences. The author’s name and the licence are shown with every enlarged photograph, and the full list is on the Photo credits page.
If you have a better or more recent photograph of a monument, write to us.
Corpus
Part of the Serbian Historical Corpus
The Serbian Historical Corpus is the umbrella project of Kulturni element, bringing together four specialised digital platforms. Their entries are linked: a monument that is an endowment leads to its founder and to the same entry on the Srpsko zadužbinarstvo website.
Behind the scenes
Who is behind the project
Author of the project
Tadija Miletić
The concept, structure and vision of the corpus are the work of director and dramaturge Tadija Miletić, founder of Kulturni element, who wanted Serbian heritage to be accessible to everyone.
Design and development
Digitalni element
The digital agency that designs and develops the platforms of the Serbian Historical Corpus — from the database and the map to search and search engine optimisation.
Institutional support
Supported by
Founding of the project
The founding of the Serbian Cultural Heritage project, the predecessor of Serbian Monuments, was supported by the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia.
Support for development
The development of the Serbian Historical Corpus was supported by the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS), whose programmes encourage quality content in the Serbian language and the development of the Serbian internet.
Your support matters
Help us preserve the stories of Serbian monuments — so that every endowment, shrine and memorial has its own entry.