Osijek Co-cathedral

The Church of St Peter and St Paul, the co-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ?akovo-Osijek, is a neo-Gothic sacral shape positioned in Osijek, Croatia. The multi-tiered 90-metre spire is one of the metropolis's landmarks. The church turned into built in 1898 on the initiative of the Bishop of ?akovo Josip Juraj Strossmayer. The church is entered through a small door to the right of the primary portal, left out by way of a trio of gargoyles. The interior is a treasure trove of neo-Gothic ornamentation, with a succession of pinnacled altars disregarded by way of exuberant stained glass windows.

The interior changed into finished off in 1938–1942 while main Croatian painter Mirko Racki blanketed the partitions and ceilings with brightly coloured frescoes illustrating famous episodes from the Old and New Testaments. In 1991, throughout Croatian War of Independence the church turned into heavily broken. The church is built of three and a 1/2 million bricks, and has a colored stone altars.