JEVREJSKA 1- VASA VASILJEVIĆ HOUSE – INN “KOD SUNCA” (AT THE SUN)
At the corner of Jevrejska Street and Bulevar Mihajla Pupina stands the house of Vasa Vasiljević, built in 1852 on the site of a “ruin and old structure” (Sauter No. 652), which he purchased after the uprising.
Vasiljević moved into the newly constructed building and opened the famous inn “Kod Sunca” (At the Sun), one of three taverns in the city (alongside Zeleni venac and Delisavčeva) where the first theatrical performances and dance evenings were held.
By 1854, the building was repurposed for administrative use: the District Administration occupied the ground floor, and the County Administration was on the upper floor, with a large assembly hall.
On maps from 1872, the building is listed as a “Reserve Command”, while on Sauter’s 1885 city plan, it appears under the label KK Militar. It was only later that the house returned to civilian use, again operating as an inn.
Aerial footage of Novi Sad from 1921.
Between the two World Wars, it was owned by merchant Eugen Bek.
This two-story building is positioned to form the corner between the boulevard and Jevrejska Street.
Over time, various shops have occupied the ground floor, leading to a loss of its original interior character. At the center of the longer wing along Jevrejska, there is a tall semicircular entrance to a carriage passage, marked by stone piers and a segmental pediment.
The upper floor is organized as a row of fourteen windows framed in decorative plaster, with rosettes and geometric ornaments on the parapets.
The shorter façade along the boulevard has five windows and three shopfronts, all treated in a similar stylistic manner. The current appearance of the ground floor zone dates from the 1990s, executed in a postmodern stylization.
The roof is a double-pitched structure, covered with beaver-tail tiles.
The house has been preserved to this day and remains clearly visible in the urban fabric, serving as an interesting example of the blend between historic architectural heritage and newer design, particularly in contrast to the adjacent department store on the boulevard.
The realisation of this site was supported by the Administration for Culture of the City of Novi Sad
The sources and materials of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Novi Sad were used for the realization of this website
The Old Core of Novi Sad was declared a cultural asset, by the decision on establishing it as a spatial cultural-historical unit – 05 no. 633-151/2008 of January 17, 2008, “Sl. gazette of the Republic of Serbia” no. 07/2008.
