Church of the Holy Prince Lazar, Birmingham Church of the Holy Prince Lazar, Birmingham The Church of the Holy Prince Lazar, also known as Lazarica Church, is a Serbian Orthodox church located at Cob Lane in Bournville, Birmingham, England, and was built for political refugees from Yugoslavia after World War II, with the support of the exiled Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia. Serbs have been associated with Bournville since Dame Elizabeth Cadbury sponsored thirteen Serbian refugee children of World War I. Built in traditional 14th-century Byzantine form by Yugoslavian architect and Bournville Village Trust, it is a replica of a church in Serbia using stone from the same
Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country the mid-1980s it established Plants Brook Nature Reserve in Birmingham. The Trust was the first UK Wildlife Trust to become a member of Countdown 2010 the European initiative to halt the decline in biodiversity by 2010. Black Country Living Landscape was a major initiative of the Trust that aimed to be the first practical application of the principles of landscape scale conservation to an urban area. The organisation has a 40 hectare reserve at Park Hall near Minworth and the much smaller Richmond Garden in Soho, Birmingham. The Trust also manages Moseley Bog and has a close involvement with reserves