Chapel of St. Petronila

Samobor, Budinjak

The chapel of St. Petronila on Budinjak is located next to the Roman Catholic chapel of St. Petronila, built in 1827. The Greco-Catholic chapel of St. Petka was demolished in 1841 due to deterioration and was unknown until the archeological research in 2006 when the clover-leaf ground plan of a 13 x 12 building was discovered as one of the most interesting churches in Žumberak. Its date of origin is still unknown due to the lack of other findings. It may have been built in the Romanesque period or several centuries later, at the time of the settlement of Uskoks to Žumberak.