Pančevo is a city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Pančevo was first mentioned in 1153 and was described as an important mercantile place. It gained the status of a city in 1873 following the disestablishment of the Military Frontier in that region. For most of its period, it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary and after 1920 it became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was renamed in 1929 to Yugoslavia.

The two largest churches in the city are the Roman Catholic Church Saint Charles Borromeo, which was built between 1756 and 1757, and the Serbian Orthodox Church Assumption of Holy Virgin, which was built between 1807 and 1811. The oldest and most traditional cultural institution of the city is the Serbian Church Choral Society, founded in 1838 and the oldest still existing Choral Society of today's Serbia.