Pilgrimage and Visual Culture in 19ᵗh-Century Kosovo and Metohija
Pilgrimage and Visual Culture in 19ᵗh-Century Kosovo and Metohija

Summary/Abstract: In the 19th century religious journeys were a widespread and important form of active worship, but they also had a wider cultural significance. The practice of the permanent memorization of a pilgrimage (hac?l?k) in the form of sacral memorabilia was particularly important for the visual culture of the 19th century in the Balkans. The paper analyzes these Palestinian eulogiae in the form of various types of icons found at the churches of Kosovo and Metohija during field research. Also, the paper offers a short analysis of the distinctive ambience of the so called Jerusalem Room in the house of Hadjji Sima in Velika Hoca, where items he brought from his pilgrimage to Jerusalem have been kept since the mid-19th century.

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