The House of Stevan Sinđelić in Grabovac is located in the churchyard, next to the chapel. It was built using a bonded construction system with a filling made of chatme. The roof has a gentle slope, with a four-sided design. The roofing material is tiles. The structure is a three-part building consisting of a ‘house’ and two rooms. In the middle of the ‘house’, an open hearth is placed. The floor is made of compacted earth, and the ceiling is made of straw. At the front, there is a porch with oak columns and a railing made of profiled straw. A distinctive feature is the horizontal wooden latticework, known as ‘toplije’, on the windows. The building serves as an exhibition space, showcasing items from the period of the First Serbian Uprising, as well as original household objects from this region.
THE HOUSE OF STEVAN SINĐELIĆ IN GRABOVAC
The House of Stevan Sinđelić in Grabovac was declared a cultural heritage – cultural monument, by the Decision of the Cultural Heritage Preservation Institute Kragujevac, number 32/1, dated February 1, 1968, and was categorized as a cultural heritage of great importance by the Decision of the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (‘Official Gazette of the SRS’ number 14, dated April 7, 1979).
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