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The FAME is a site devoted to the systematic and scientific study of flags and coats of arms. Such symbols often bear strong political and other messages. Inclusion of those symbols here does not mean that the author supports or approves of the ideas they may stand for.	This site is harvested for the NSK digital archives.

Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia, Religious Communities

• Serbian Orthodox Church
• Jewish Religious Community of Kingdom of Yugolsavia
• Muslim Religious Community of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
• German Luteran Church of Kingdom of Yugolsavia
• Slovak Lutheran Church of Kingdom of Yugolsavia
• Kalvinist Reformed Church of Kingdom of Yugolsavia

Various territories that formed the Kingdom of SHS in 1918 had different legal systems and thuse also different relations among church and state. The freedom of religion and conscience and equality of all religious denominations were guaranteed by the Art. 12 of the 1921 Constitution in principle. During the egsistence of teh South-Slavic state between the two World Wars, the relation among the religious communities and state represents a series of pursuits of different solutions. In the late 1929 the Law on the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Law on the Religious Community of Jews were passed, and in 1930 the Law on Muslim Religious Community as well as the Law on Evangelical Christian Churches and on the Reformed Christican Church, so these communities adopted their constititions. Solving of status of the Roman Catholic church was a hot unresolved issue in the state during its whole period of existence. Although finally, in 1935, the COncordate with teh Holy See was signed, and eventually ratified in the National Assembly in 1937, with much disatisfaction both from Serbian and Croatian sides, it was never adopted by the Senate and never passed into a law and became valid.
Some of the above-mentioned legislations determined flags of religious communities (some that had even longer tradition), and that still have important role in tehse communities even today.
Source: Blanka Matković: "Pravni položaj vjerskih zajednica u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji i političko-društveni kontekst konkordata sa Svetom Stolicom" Bosna Franciscana, Sarajevo, No.38, pp. 107-145. Jovan Stefanović: Odnos između crkve i države, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1953.

• SHS / Yugoslavia, 1918 - 1941
• Yugoslavia, 1918 - 2006

Serbian Orthodox Church

Srpska pravoslavna crkva

The coat of arms and the flag of the Church were determined with its 1931 Constitution, and are basically the same as today. Graphical details of the design were not established past the blazon (description) in the Constitution. The same descriptions are retained in the 1947 Constitution, still valid today. The coat of arms is: A shield is centered upon a porphyry-colored Patriarchal Mantle which is adorned by a double-bar Patriarchal Cross on the right and an Episcopal Scepter on the left. The shield, which consists of a blue upper half and a white lower half, is adorned on the top by a Gold Episcopal Crown. The right side of the blue upper half of the shield contains a white portrayal of the Tower of Saint Sava in Chilandar. The left side of the blue upper half of the shield contains a white portrayal of the Monastery Church at the Patriarchate of Pech. The white lower half of the shield contains a Gold Cross of four equal sides with a Gold Fire-Irons in each corner of the Cross.
The flag is a tricolour of red, blue and white with a golden cross and fire-irons.

The 1890 law (Art. 224) prescribes that certain seals include the coat of arms of the Church, it is not described.

Jewish Religious Community of Kingdom of Yugolsavia

Verska zajednica Jevreja u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji

All Jewish communities in the Kingdom were organized in the Union of Jewish Religious Communities, except those of orthodox rite, who formed the Union of Jewish Religious Communities. None of the two adopted a flag for the religious community.

Muslim Religious Community of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Islamska verska zajednica Kraljevine Jugoslavije

The decre with the power of legislation of 1936 added into the Law on Muslim Religious Community determination on its flag, as green with a white crescent and five-pointed star in its centre. The same is included in the Constitution of the Muslim Religious Community of 1936, prescribing that Reis-ul-ulema (the religious leader of the Community) regulates details of its use.

German Luteran Church of Kingdom of Yugolsavia

Nemačke evangeličko-hrišćanska crkva augsburškog veroispovedanja u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji

Protestant churches in Yugoslavia were organized into three separate communities, two ethnical lutheran churches and a calvinist church. The German Evangelical Christian Chruch of Augsburg Confession in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (German Luthernas) was organized as a separate religious community. No flag was adopted by it.

Slovak Lutheran Church of Kingdom of Yugolsavia

Slovačka evangeličko-hrišćanska crkva augsburškog veroispovedanja Kraljevine Jugoslavije

The Slovak Evangelical Christian Chruch of Augsburg Confession of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Slovak Luthernas) was organized as a separate religious community. No flag was adopted by it.

Kalvinist Reformed Church of Kingdom of Yugolsavia

Reformirana hrišćanska crkva Kraljevine Jugoslavije

The Reformed Christian Chruch of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Calvinists) was organized as a separate religious community. No flag was adopted by it.

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