2025180 years of the Serbian Reading Room Laza Kostic - Set CTO

One of the oldest cultural institutions of the Serbian people that still exists today, the Serbian Reading Room “Laza Kostić” in Sombor, was founded on March 24, 1845. At the beginning, it had 72 founding members, and its first president was the Sombor parish priest Avram Maksimović. In the first decades of its existence, the Serbian Reading Room did not have its own building, but with the participation of the members of the Reading Room, voluntary contributions from Sombor Serbs and the help of the Orthodox Church Municipality in Sombor, a specific-purpose building was erected in 1882, today a building of exceptional cultural and historical significance for the city of Sombor and the Serbian people in general. In the period from 1901 to 1910, the president of the Serbian Reading Room was Laza Kostić, and after his death this institution bore his name. In 1908, the Constitution of the Sombor Serbian Reading Room was printed.