“VODICA” PLACE OF WORSHIP

The worship place is located on the flat floor of the embankment, about 3 km south of Kikinda. This cult unit includes a chapel with a boulevard, a built-up cone, “konaki” buried in wood, four wells grouped near the chapel and a stone cross on a stepped postamento. Judging by the inscription on the cross, the whole was sanctified in 1867, after the construction of today’s church, in the people called the monk. The name Tekija, according to the dervish building for ceremonies, points to the deeper age of this cult place.
The chapel is a one-brick building made of brick, and from the outside and inside with a semicircular apse in the width of the ship. Two arched entrance entrances on the longitudinal walls of the water in the western grassy temple, where a fountain connected with a tank is placed alongside the outer facade of the facade of the chapel in which it touches the water from the well. Above the grass with a fountain rises tower tower. Directly to the chapel, on its south side, are the “Konaci” – the building is buried in the embankment, with the entrance side built in the general. They served as a built-in cone, to accommodate believers and patients. Pointing to the ancient folk beliefs related to the cult of water and ritual washing, Vodnik Ognjena Marija is an example of sacral folk architecture characteristic of Vojvodina.