Vidovdan Heroes chapel built

Name: Vidovdan Heroes chapel built
Start: 1939

1939 CE.

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The Vidovdan Heroes Chapel Serbian: Капела видовданских хероја, romanized: Kapela vidovdanskih heroja is an Eastern Orthodox chapel and mausoleum located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the Holy Archangels Georgije and Gavrilo Orthodox Cemetery. The crypt of the chapel contains the bodily remains of Gavrilo Princip and other members of Young Bosnia who took part in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914. The chapel is named after Vidovdan, the day the assassination took place, with the perpetrators of the assassination being referred to as heroes.

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Vidovdan Heroes chapel built

Text from the Wikipedia article Vidovdan Heroes Chapel (revision 1368399890), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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