Old Gymnasium
Across the street from the church of St. George is the Elementary School "St. Sava". In the building of this school, built in 1902...
Across the street from the church of St. George is the Elementary School "St. Sava". In the building of this school, built in 1902, in the imposing building of the Serbian primary school, there used to be the first Bijeljina Gymnasium, which started working as a lower gymnasium on September 1, 1919. With the opening of the 5th grade in 1924, it was named the Real High School. The first generation of students, 22 of them, after eight years of their stay in high school, crowned their schooling with graduation. From that time until 1941. 243 high school graduates passed through the school, as well as a large number of students who finished lower high school and enrolled in some other schools outside our place. During that time, more than a hundred professors and teachers and seven principals worked in the Gymnasium, who with their tireless work fought to better and more successfully provide knowledge and science to their students.
Immediately after the liberation of Bijeljina, the Gymnasium reopened. It was the beginning of May 1945. In those first post-war years, the students and the Teachers' Council invested all their effort and effort in educating the youth, to make up for lost time and soon to train young intellectual forces that will help rebuild and build the destroyed country. The gymnasium worked for over 50 years at this location, in Zmaj Jovina Street, and then in April 1979 it was moved to a new building, in Račanska Street, where it is still located today. The high school is named after the blind guslar, insurgent poet, chronicler and memoirist, Filip Visnjic.
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