General Post Office, Belgrade, Monumental postal building in Palilula district, Belgrade, Serbia.
The General Post Office in Belgrade is a large public building on Takovska Street in the Palilula district, with facades of granite and artificial stone. Inside, several service counters handle postal, banking, and currency exchange operations.
An architectural competition in 1930 set the project in motion, and the building was finished in 1938 after nearly a decade of planning and construction. The design went through several revisions before work was completed.
The building's name recalls its original tenants: the Post Office Savings Bank, the Main Post Office and the Main Telegraph, all housed under one roof from 1938. The savings bank had opened in 1923 in the Hotel Moskva on Terazije and soon outgrew those rooms. The Takovska Street wing has served postal purposes continuously, while the Bulevar kralja Aleksandra wing now holds the Constitutional Court.
The building sits on Takovska Street and is easy to reach on foot from the city center or by public transport. Visiting outside busy midday hours generally means shorter waits at the counters inside.
The granite cladding of the palace was quarried near the village of Radalj in the Rađevina region, and the foundation stone was consecrated on 17 August 1935. The building was consecrated on 10 October 1938, and the post office itself opened on 28 November that year.
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