Church of St. Nicholas, Mikluševci

LocationMikluševci, Vukovar-Syrmia County

Country Croatia

DenominationSerbian Orthodox

StatusChurch

Church of St. Nicholas
Church of St. Nicholas
Location	Mikluševci, Vukovar-Syrmia County
Country	Croatia
Denomination	Serbian Orthodox
History
Status	Church
Dedication	Saint Nicholas
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Style	Baroque
Years built	1758-1766[1][2]
Administration
Archdiocese	Eparchy of Osijek Plain and Baranya

Church of St. Nicholas (Serbian Cyrillic: Црква светог Николе, Croatian: Crkva svetog Nikole) in Mikluševci is Serbian Orthodox church in eastern Croatia. The church was constructed in period between 1758 and 1766 at the site of an earlier wooden Orthodox church which in 1756 served 31 Orthodox household in the village.^[2] This wooden church was dedicated to Saint Nicholas as well.^[1] From the 19th century onward the village was settled by Greek Catholic Pannonian Rusyns settlers from Carpathian Ruthenia which changed religious structure of the settlement.^[2] In 1880 out of 712 inhabitants 467 were Greek Catholic, 227 Eastern Orthodox, 11 Roman Catholic and 7 Jewish.^[2] Parrish Hall of the Church of St. Nicholas was destroyed two times in history, once during the World War II and in 1991 again during the Croatian War of Independence.^[1] Iconostasis, which is the main property of the Church of St. Nicholas, is since Croatian War of Independence kept and under restoration of Matica srpska in Novi Sad.^[1] Today the village of Mikluševci are not an independent Serbian Orthodox parish but are part of the Sotin parish.^[3]