History and cultural heritage

The church was built in 1874 on the site of the former parish church, Holy Trinity.  It was one of the most beautiful church constructions of our Archbishopric, constructed from gray carved stone. It had two altars.
During the Homeland War, nothing, not even St. Jeronimo Church, was spared from destruction.  The church was destroyed on the exact name day of its protector, September 30, 1991.  After the horrors of war, the expelled population returned to its homes and slowly rebuilt the church, which was a centuries old witness to the presence of Croatians in this area.

The chapel has been preserved in its original half-cross contours, with a characteristic cupola in the shape of an ellipse, and a rounded roof. The church serves as a valuable cultural monument of Middle Age construction, on which the cupola was envisioned as a unique sun-clock and calendar with apertures which at certain specific moments show the exact time. Experts believe that it was constructed between the 9th and 11th centuries and it can be categorized among other, similar treasures such as St. Kriz in Nin, St. Pelegrin in Savar and others. Today, the St. George church is a protected cultural monument and an important Croatian cultural legacy.

The church is located on the slopes of the Velebit mountains, underneath Tulove Grede.
It was built by the Austrian czar, Franz I, in 1832 in honor of the newly built road that connected southern and northern Croatia over the rocky Velebit. The most beautiful decorative detail in the church was the altar painting of St. Francis, which shows the impoverished Assisian's wounds being attended to by Jesus Christ. The painting is now in Split. Near the church, a small hospice was raised which offers services and provisions to travelers and pilgrims, and pastoral assistance to members of the diocese living under the Velebit.