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The Church of Saint Demetrius (Macedonian: Црква 'Св. Димитриј') is the main Macedonian Orthodox church of Bitola, North Macedonia, part of the Prespa-Pelagonia Dicoese. It was built in 1830 and its most remarkable feature is considered to be its wood-carved iconostasis. The church bell tower was built in 1936. Saint Demetrius is listed as an Object of Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture. The iconostasis includes icons from 1842, done by Mihail Aganost and his son Nikolai Mihailov. Icons depicting Jesus Christ, the Introduction of the Virgin, the Baptism of Christ, the Entering into Jerusalem, the Crucifixion, Pentecost, and the Denial of Thomas, dated around 1730 and painted by David Selenica are today housed in the Museum of Macedonia in Skopje.

The current parish church was constructed by the Piranese architect Giovanni Dongetti on the remains of the 14th century church which was damaged by a storm in 1651. The construction works commenced in 1730 and continued until 1757. The church was consecrated in 1760 even though it was still unfinished. This was the first example of a late-Palladian church built in the 18th century in Venetian Istria and became an architectural template for other Istrian churches. The unfinished front elevation is divided into six pilasters topped by Corinthian capitals and geometric decorations. The main entrance is framed by semi-columns supporting the architrave and a lunette embellished with a Renaissance-style shell. Inside, three pairs of shallow side chapels, containing Baroque stone altars, delimit the single nave. The altars dedicated to the Sacred family, St. Nicholas and the Sacred Heart, also contain altarpieces painted at the end of the 19th century. The remaining three side chapels contain artefacts older than the current church, belonging to a previous one, such as the wooden Crucifix over the altar of the Sacred Cross and the altarpiece of the Baptism of Christ which date back to late 16th/early 17th century. The latter reflects the influence of the so-called 'Scuola di Parma', Parma school. In the altar of Our Lady of Sorrows there is a 15th century polychrome wooden statue of the Mater Dolorosa. The relics of St. Nicephorus and of his deacon Maximilian are kept in the altar. The apsis, besides the altarpiece, is also decorated with two marble statues of the saints Peregrine and Nicephorus on each side of the altar. They were sculpted at the beginning of the 19th century by Antonio Bosa in the style of Antonio Canova. The altarpiece is a 1788 work of Domenico Martinelli depicting the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The ceiling paintings dating back to the mid-18th century are attributed to Giuseppe B. Bisson. Within the church there is a fine organ built in 1776 by Francesco Dacci. In addition there is another artefact from the previous church: a 15th century wooden triptych of Saint Peter, Antony Abbot and Martin in high relief by a master carver. Placed inside the church on the right hand side, there is a stone bas relief of St. Peregrine holding a model of Umag. Originally this artefact was placed above the main gate of the city.

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