Orthodox Cathedral, Sarajevo vs Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo
Two churches in Sarajevo. Orthodox Cathedral, Sarajevo has no online ticket listed; Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo has no online ticket listed. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos stands in the centre of Sarajevo, near Liberation Square, where old men play giant chess, and a short walk from the Catholic cathedral, the Gazi Husrev-beg mosque and the old synagogue. Entry is free, and a small donation for candles is customary. Walking tours of Sarajevo almost always include the cathedral as part of the city's story of coexistence between religions, which earned it the nickname of the Jerusalem of Europe;
The Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart stands on Ferhadija, the pedestrian street that runs from the Austro-Hungarian part of Sarajevo into the Ottoman old town, and entry is free. It is the largest Catholic church in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the seat of the Archbishop of Sarajevo. Walking tours of Sarajevo almost always stop in front of it, because it marks the meeting point of the city's cultures, a few minutes from the Orthodox cathedral, the Gazi Husrev-beg mosque and the old synagogue, and because the pavement nearby holds one of the Sarajevo Roses, the scars of mortar shells from the siege filled with red resin.
