Church of St. Peter and Paul in DonjaLakošnica

The church was built outside the village of DonjaLakošnica, northeast of Leskovac, on the hill from which the entire Leskovac field can be seen. Church of St. Peter and Paul is the fruit of cooperation between the project of VasilijeAndrosov and PetarPopović, a good connoisseur of the Serbian medieval architectural heritage, during 1926. According to the record from the chronicle of the church in DonjaLakošnica, the lease of the church land that was given to the locals for use, with the great commitment of the local parish priest Aleksije P. Rutkevich, originally from Russia, was provided with money for the construction of the church. Church dedicated to St. Peter and Paul was completed in 1930. It has a base in the shape of an inscribed cross of a developed type, with one dome over the central part of the nave. It has modest dimensions, but harmonious and good proportions, reduced decorations characteristic of Romanesque and Raska churches.