CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR
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At the heart of the campus, this Serbian Orthodox cathedral (Katedralja i Krishtit Shpëtimtar, Saborni hram Hrista Spasa) has never been opened for worship. Unfinished, its large concrete and brick carcass is however open to all winds. Topped by four semi-domes, a large central dome, a bell tower and a huge golden cross, the building was to become the headquarters of the Eparchy of Ras-Prizren. The work started in 1995 with the blessing of President Slobodan Milošević was never completed. The war of 1998-1999 came and went. Half finished, the cathedral is since then the stake of an arm wrestling between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the University of Pristina. The former intends to resume the work and won its case in the Kosovo Court of Appeal in 2017. The second claims to own the land and is blocking access to the workers. In any case, the Albanian inhabitants of the town seem to have got used to this ghost of the past. They have nicknamed it "Milošević's church" (kisha e Millosheviqit). For the cathedral was a symbol of Serbian nationalism. In this context, it is difficult to see how the Kosovar state could accept new works. But destruction seems out of the question, if not to aggravate relations between Serbs and Albanians. The Serbian Orthodox community in Pristina (500 people today) is content anyway with the discreet St. Nicholas Church (1830) on Shkodra Street, 800 metres northeast of the upper part of Mother Teresa Boulevard.
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