Cultural Center REX is a place for contemporary, socially engaged art and analytical cultural practice.
Through our programs, we research and present fields of culture and social engagement and fields in which different branches of art overlap. The aim of projects is to educate and empower individuals and groups by articulating their ideas, putting those ideas into practice, developing an understanding of social relations, and using knowledge and skills in a creative way. We devote special attention to young authors and audiences.
The Oneg Sabat and Gemilut Hasadim Society Building
According to Ignjat Slang, the author of the book “Jews in Belgrade,” this building was erected in 1923. It was designed by Samuel Sumbul, an architect, and built by H. Isakovic, a civil engineer. According to documents in the Belgrade City Archives, the building works begun in 1922. The building housed a nursing home, and thus needed a space to accommodate its workers; in 1929, an application was submitted for a permit to construct a one story building for that purpose.
The land where the house was built belonged to the Jewish Sephardi municipality, which, in 1938, engaged the architect Isak Azirel to build another small facility for storage of building materials in the same court-yard. The two-story building was built in a very decorative, eclectic style that was supposed to stress its purpose. The facade carried two inscriptions. One of them, at the level of the second story, was written in Hebrew and Cyrillic script: Oneg Sabat and Gelimut Hasadim. The other inscription was in Hebrew, placed in the medallion above the entrance, and read: “Do not discard me in the old age, do not leave me when the strength gives up on me.”
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Location and getting here
Tram: 2, 5, 10 (Braće Baruh)
Bus: 24, 26, 79 (Braće Baruh), 26 (Solunska, Dorćol (Dunavska) )
