Gps Coordinates / 41.9653334,21.3944715
Millennium Cross Vodno Mountain VR Macedonia
X98V+3P5, Skopje 1000, North Macedonia
Following the breakup of Yugoslavia and independence of Macedonia, different ethno-religious groups in the country competed with each other to leave their mark upon the urban landscape of Skopje, especially after the inter-ethnic conflict of 2001. As elections approached, Prime Minister Georgievski and his VMRO-DPMNE government raised the idea of constructing the Millennium Cross in his efforts to gain support.
Built in 2002, it is one of the tallest crosses worldwide.
Gps Coordinates / 41.9653625,21.3943596
Cable car does not run on Mondays and the last Tuesday of the month.
The Millennium Cross Cable Car is a cableway constructed in 2011 that runs to the 66 metre-high Millennium Cross situated on the top of the Vodno Mountain in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia.
The Millennium Cross project was named by government officials as the Symbol of Christianity.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link -10.464386 / Gps Link 41.9655021 / Gps Link 41.9648347
Gps Coordinates / 41.9650044,21.3942833 / 41.9655021,21.3943655 / 41.9648347,21.3940085
The Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) endorsed the proposal and initiated the project. Construction of the cross in 2002 was an enterprise stemming from the pro-Orthodox policies of the MOC that had the backing of Prime Minister Georgievski.
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The top part of a hill on Vodno Mountain was publicly owned land and selected as the site for the monument in an area of Skopje populated mainly by ethnic Macedonians and half a mile distance from a military base.
In August 2002 a dedication ceremony was held for the Millennium Cross and 70,000 people were in attendance.
Gps Coordinates / 41.9649449,21.3937742
The construction of the Millennium Cross was funded by the Macedonian Orthodox Church, the Macedonian government and donations from Macedonians from all over the world. The cross was built on the highest point of the Vodno mountain on a place known since the time of the Ottoman Empire as "Krstovar", meaning "Place of the cross", as there was a smaller cross situated there.
Gps Coordinates / 41.9648072,21.3940809
On 8 September 2018, the Independence Day of the Republic of North Macedonia, an elevator was installed inside the cross. In 2019, a restaurant and a souvenir shop were opened next to the cross. In 2011 the Millennium Cross ropeway was opened, and is three and a half kilometres long.
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