Draft:Persida Milenkovic

Persida Milenković (Serbian Cyrillic: Персида Миленковић; Šabac, Principality of Serbia, 1857 – Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 8 February 1943) was a Serbian philanthropist.

Biography
Persida Milenković was born in Šabac to Nikodije Ćirić and Jelka. The family moved to Belgrade, and Nikodije worked at the Ministry of Construction there.

She had a son, Vojislav, who died in infancy, and when she became a widow she remarried in 1883 to a wealthy Belgrade merchant, Rista Milenković.

In 1924, the Church of the Holy Trinity in Kumodraž was built on the initiative of Persida Milenković, on the advice of the local voivode Stepa Stepanović (1856-1929). . She also contributed to the founding of the Vavedenje Monastery in Senjak, which was built in Belgrade in 1936. Together with her husband Rista Milenković, she contributed to the construction of the Belgrade Mathematical High School (Matematička gimnazija). She donated land for the construction of an orphanage and bequeathed her assets to the Red Cross in her will. In honour of her work, a street in the Senjak district was dedicated to her.

Persida Milenković died during the German occupation of Yugoslavia on 8 February 1943 in Belgrade. She was buried in the Monastery of the Presentation of the Mother of God, better known as Vavedenje Monastery, the same one she helped to build in 1936. Her funeral was attended by Metropolitan Josif Cvijović, Minister of Education Velibor Jonić and Serbian Prime Minister General Milan Nedić