EVANDEOSKA PENTEKOSTNA CRKVA RADOSNA VIJEST-SPLIT

In 1245, the Dominicans built their monastery next to it. By the way, with the establishment of begging orders in the 13th century, a new type of church-monastery complex appeared with the cloister as the main spatial accent around which monastery buildings were built. Such buildings were regularly located near the city walls and gates, as was the case with Split's Dominican church-monastery complex, which was built on the east side of the medieval city, outside the city walls, next to the Silver Gate. According to some historians, it was founded by the Blessed Gregory of Split, who met in Italy with St. Dominic. D. Farlati says that the Dominicans came to Split for Bela IV, when the Archbishop of Split was Hugrin. The news about the presence of Dominicans in Split is given by Thomas the Archdeacon, so we can say with certainty that the Dominicans have been in Diocletian's city since 1245. Before that, there was only a Dominican monastery in Croatia in Dubrovnik, founded in 1225. Some data state that as early as 1243, the Dominicans participated in the election of the bishop of Split. Soon after Split, the surrounding monasteries were founded in Trogir, on Ciovo.

Split Cathedral was built in the early 4th century as part of the complex of the Roman palace of Diocletian in Split. The building, which was originally an imperial mausoleum, was not dedicated to the church until the 7th century. In the 11th century, a bell tower was added and in the 17th century, the cathedral was enlarged by the construction of an apse in the choir. Consecrated as a cathedral at the turn of the 7th century AD, it is considered to be the oldest Catholic cathedral in the world that remains in use in its original structure. As part of the Diocletian's Palace, it is a World Heritage Site.

The Synagogue in Split was created in the 16th-century bu converting the second floor of two attached medieval houses. The current interior was created around 1728. The Aron Hakodesh, one of the most sacred parts of the place of worship facing Jerusalem and made out black and white marble in the Classicist style, is built into the western wall of the Diocletian’s Palace. It is one of the oldest continuously used Sephardic synagogues in the world.