Pelince – ASNOM – World War II Memorial

The Pelince Memorial Museum was developed by the project of architect Georgi Konstantinov (Ѓорѓи Константинов) and the monumental mosaic facade is the work of the Macedonian contemporary artists Rubens Korubin (Рубенс Корубин) and Ilija Penushliski (Илија Пенушлиски).

Entrance of the museum - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

 

ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

 

Mosaic - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

The museum exhibit is made in an ambiental and authentic manner, as at the time when the First Meeting of ASNOM was held on August 2, 1944 in the Monastery Prohor Pcinjski (Прохор Пчињски) which today is located in Serbia.

View toward the museum - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

On the first ASNOM session were present 116 delegates from Vardar, Aegean, and Pirin part of Macedonia. In addition, also were present the representatives of the English and American military mission in Macedonia during World War II.

The session was opened by the oldest member of Parliament, Panko Brashnarov (Панко Брашнаров), and then were adopted important decisions, which laid the foundation of the Macedonian state.

Reconstruction of the room from the monastery Prohor Pcinjski where ASNOM was held

One of the most important documents of the session include Decisions which constitute Macedonia as an equal federal unit of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, implementation of the Macedonian language as an official language of the Macedonian state, etc.

The first meeting of ASNOM marks the beginning of the current existence of Macedonia as a free state in federation with the Yugoslav people, and since 1991 as an independent state.

Pelince Memorial Museum was opened on 2 August 2004 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the ASNOM meeting.

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Photo Gallery - Part 1

Date: May 2019
Sunset scene - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

Part of the scene - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

Detail of Mosaic - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

Detail of Mosaic - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

detail of Mosaic - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

Mosaic - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

Mosaic - ASNOM memorial center in Pelince village, Macedonia

Part 2

Reconstruction of the room from the monastery Prohor Pcinjski where ASNOM was held

Reconstruction of the room from the monastery Prohor Pcinjski where ASNOM was held

Auxiliary objects - Pelince - ASNOM memorial center

Auxiliary objects - Pelince - ASNOM memorial center

Auxiliary objects - Pelince - ASNOM memorial center

Pelince - ASNOM memorial center, Macedonia

Pelince - ASNOM memorial center, Macedonia

Pelince - ASNOM memorial center, Macedonia

Statue
Statue
Pcinja river
Pcinja river
Pelince - ASNOM memorial center, Macedonia
Pelince - ASNOM memorial center, Macedonia