Maršala Tita broj 41, 24430 Ada
The previous church in the Baroque style was built in 1759 and was dedicated to the Annunciation. It was damaged in the riot of March 1849, but in 1852 it was generally restored. In 1925, the old temple was demolished and the present-day Ascension Temple was built on the same site, which is one of the most beautiful temples in this part of Vojvodina. The designer of the temple was DakaPopović.The temple was built as a five-domed building in the Serbian-Byzantine style.
The contractors were engineer Josif Ginder and masonry contractors Đoka Bošković and Mita Bakić from Stari Bečej. The icons in the previous temple, on the iconostasis, the bishop’s throne and the Virgin’s throne, 32 of them, were made by the painter Novak Radonić.
Some of them are oil on wood and some are oil on canvas laminated on board. Only 7 of the mentioned icons were placed on the iconostasis in the present temple. The rest are kept in the baptistery of the temple and have great artistic value. The length of the current temple is 45 meters, width 25, and the central cube is 37 meters high. Above the western entrance door is an inscription stating that the foundation stone was consecrated and laid on Tuesday, the third day of All Souls’ Day, May 27 / June 9, 1925 by the then bishop of Bačka, Dr. IrinejĆirić, who consecrated the finished temple and consecrated it on Sunday the 25th.October/November 7, 1926.
The Gračanica monastery in Kosovo and Metohija served as a model for construction, and the temple on Oplenac served as a model for painting. The painting in the temple, from 1940 to 1946, was done by Žarko Milinov from Šajkaš. The painting was completed immediately after the liberation, on May 30, 1946, it was consecrated by the Bečej priest Jovan Stepanov on the day of the temple’s glory, Spasovdan. The temple was placed under the protection of the state by the Institute for the Protection and Scientific Study of Cultural Monuments NRS by Decision No. 1028/49 of July 13, 1949. Today, the temple is actively cared for by 140 Orthodox Ada homes, as well as a few Orthodox who were born in Ada, but do not currently live there.
