[1] Kotež is a Serbian rendering of the French cottage, a suburban settlement of individual residential houses.

[3] The word itself, neimar, means a builder or mason, and entered Serbian language via Turkish from the Arabic mi'mar.

Neimar is located 2 km (1.2 mi) south-east of downtown Belgrade, in the south-western corner of the municipality.

It borders the neighborhoods of Vračar on the north, Čubura on the north-east (sub-neighborhood of Gradić Pejton) and east, Autokomanda on the south while on the west it leans on the Karađorđev Park.

[4][5] Uninhabited slope from Čubura to the Čuburski potok valley (modern South Boulevard) was included into the city's construction plans in 1906.

As it consisted solely of villas with yards, it took some time for Neimar to fully develop, but by the outbreak of World War II it was deemed one of the most beautiful neighborhoods of Belgrade.

A whole string of new neighborhoods like this encircled eastern outskirts of Belgrade, including Neimar, with names usually containing "suburb" and some member of the royal family.

The school had no permanent building until the present edifice was built specifically for this purpose, and opened on 20 October 1954.

[11] In 2019, Branislav Mitrović, architect and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, said that "caricatural architecture, inept compilations and stylish nonsenses" turned once respectable residential neighborhood of Neimar, so as Senjak and Dedinje, into chaos.

[20] The "Neimar" company in the early 1930s also drafted the plan for the modern urbanization of the right bank of the Čuburski Potok.

The neighborhood, which makes the southernmost section of the Vračar municipality today, was organized as the local community of Franc Rozman with the population of 6,288 in 1981 and 5,614 in 1991, before it was administratively annexed to Neimar.

The church was consecrated by Angelo Roncalli, at the time Holy See's apostolic visitor to Bulgaria, and the future pope John XXIII.

[23][24] Due to the outbreak of the World War II, the new church remained unfinished with only the walls of the building and first levels of belfry being finished.

It was used as the storage unit for the factories but, due to the good acoustics, it was used by the Radio Belgrade for taping the music shows.

[23][24][25] Since 2001, the cathedral hosts an annual international music festival "Days of pipe organ - Dies organorum".

[26] The interior of the new church was painted in the mixed Catholic-Orthodox manner, sometimes described as the result of the "picturesque illustration of the confusing encounter of the East and West in Belgrade".

Saint John of Capistrano, whose name bears the monastery, was chosen because of his participation in the successful defense of the city during the 1456 Siege of Belgrade.

The theme was chosen as Pope Callixtus III selected it as the feast of the monastery after the 1456 defeat of the Ottomans.

Dormitory for guests was also finished, so as four stained glasses on the bel tower, while the bronze statue of Pope John XXIII, sculptured by Dragan Radenović, was erected in the inner yard.