The interior design of The Most Holy Redeemer Church is based on stone reliefs carved in the altar and lateral niches and on lateral walls. Human form is, once again, an important part of the building but it is sensibly reduced in comparison to that of the Racic family burial chapel in Cavtat. Bas-reliefs of religious themes, unorthodox iconographic approach, and emphasized stylisation discretely follow the configuration and symbolism of the place. The inner wall of the altar niche carries the relief Eternally Crucified. The reliefs of the four evangelists are placed in semicircular niches, while the rectangular niches under the windows house Birth and Lamentation. The lateral walls carry Annunciation with The Archangel Gabriel and Virgin Mary, Soul of a Dead Man and Soul of a Dead Woman.

The decoration of the dome arch
(The Redeemer and Moses, Sphinx, and Archangels)

All stone inventories are also reliefs and the decoration of the dome arch, originally conceived as a mosaic and then as a fresco, has been left unfinished. Plywood boards with representations of The Redeemer (oil) and Moses, Sphinx, and Archangels (charcoal and crayon) are attached to the dome crown. Ivan Mestrovic himself made the painting and the drawings, while the reliefs and the sculptures were cast in stone from his plaster casts (models) by his students and sculptors Antun Augustincic, Grga Antunac, Vanja Radaus, Ivo Lozica, Dragutin Orlandini, and Marijan Matijevic, aided by three stonemasons.

Door of The Most Holy Redeemer Church – portraits of Ivan Mestrovic’s family membersa