| Dolna Bela Crkva | |
| Native Name: | Долна Бела Црква Bollocërkë e Poshtme |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | North Macedonia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within North Macedonia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pelagonia |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Resen |
| Population As Of: | 2002 |
| Population Total: | 237 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Coordinates: | 41.0367°N 21.0311°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code: | +389 |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | RE |
Dolna Bela Crkva (Macedonian: Долна Бела Црвка, meaning Lower White Church; Albanian: Bollocërkë e Poshtme) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia, north of Lake Prespa. The village, located roughly 6km (04miles) from the municipal centre of Resen,[1] has 237 residents.[2]
Dolna Bela Crkva has an Orthodox ethnic Macedonian majority, with a significant Muslim Albanian Sunni and Bektashi minority, of whom the latter are known locally as Kolonjarë.[3] Sunni Albanians in Dolna Bela Crkva traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Macedonian Muslims in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians. Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.[4]
As of the 2021 census, Dolna Bela Crkva had 179 residents.[5]
| Ethnic group | census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | census 2021 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 222 | 65.1 | 230 | 56.9 | 259 | 64.8 | 215 | 70.7 | 167 | 67.1 | 156 | 65.8 | 117 | 65.4 |
| Albanians | 119 | 34.9 | 173 | 42.8 | 138 | 34.5 | 82 | 27.0 | 82 | 32.9 | 81 | 34.2 | 56 | 31.3 |
| others | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | 0.8 | 7 | 2.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | 6 | 3.4 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 341 | 404 | 400 | 304 | 249 | 237 | 179 | |||||||