A religious procession will be organized in central Belgrade on Thursday, June 6 with some streets closed to traffic, Belgrade city hall said on Tuesday.
The city of Belgrade celebrates the feast of the ascension of Jesus as its slava (saint’s day in Serbian). Serbian families celebrate the day of a patron saint as their family slava, a custom unique to Orthodox Christian Serbs.
The procession will leave the Vaznesenjska church in Admirala Geprata street following a mass at 11:30 and will go up Kneza Milosa into Kralja Milana and to Terazije square for prayers which will also be said in the city’s main Saborna church after the procession passes Knez Mihailova street to that church before going back to the starting point through Brankova and Kraljice Natalije streets.
Mayor Zoran Radojicic said that the city authorities “respect tradition in an effort to make Belgrade a healthy, rational, organized and young city”. He recalled that Ascension Day was marked as the city’s slava since 1403.