Zagreb Cathedral
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The Zagreb Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral in Kaptol, Zagreb. It is the tallest sacral building in Croatia and the most monumental sacral building of Gothic architecture southeast of the Alps.
Zagreb Cathedral before the 2020 earthquake
The Cathedral after 1880 Zagreb earthquake
Demolished floor of Cathedral
Cathedral under Hermann Bollé re-construction (ca 1890s)
Glagolitic script
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The Glagolitic script is the oldest-known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Cyr
Zagreb Cathedral
…with sculptures of angels and saints. In the southern nave, to the right of the entrance, on the wall of the belfry, there is an inscription in angular Glagolitic script that reminds us of the first connections of Croats with Christianity and Pope John IV (640-642 AD). The inscription was carved in 1942, and in…
A page from the Zograf Codex with text of the Gospel of Luke
The Baška tablet, found in the 19th century on Krk, conventionally dated to about 1100
The first page of the Gospel of Mark from the 10th–11th century Codex Zographensis, found in the Zograf Monastery in 1843
In a book printed in 1591, Angelo Rocca attributed the Glagolitic script to Saint Jerome.