Belgrade Cooperative Bank

Belgrade Cooperative building
Београдска задруга
View from outside
Belgrade Cooperative Bank is located in Belgrade
Belgrade Cooperative Bank
General information
AddressKarađorđeva 48
Town or cityBelgrade
CountrySerbia
Coordinates44°48′47.9″N 20°27′07.3″E / 44.813306°N 20.452028°E / 44.813306; 20.452028
Opened1882 (1882)

Belgrade Cooperative (Serbian: Београдска задруга) was a Serbian cooperative bank founded in 1882 to promote savings and support small enterprises, craftspeople and the poor of Belgrade. Member-shareholders have been paying membership in amount of one Serbian Dinar per week. That was the way for cooperative to become a public savings bank. Luka Ćelović was the first president of cooperative, also a first Serbian insurance group.

The cooperative was notable for the building it built on Karađorđeva Street in Belgrade in 1907 and used as its headquarters until the cooperative was closed in 1944. The Palace of the Belgrade Cooperative was designated as a cultural monument since 1966 and was declared a cultural asset of great importance by the Serbian government in 1979.