Monastery Rakovica – Belgrade
Rakovica Monastery, Belgrade – Serbia (July 2020) Only 10 km south of the center of Belgrade, hidden between the hills, is the Rakovica Monastery. Today’s monastery of Rakovica is first mentioned in written sources in the 16th century, at this location where it was moved most probably for security reasons. In the central part of […]
Monastery Novo Hopovo – Serbia
Monastery Novo Hopovo is hidden in Fruška gora mountain . The monastery is dedicated to the transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas. Novo Hopovo is an important cultural center and the seat of the bishop since its founding at the beginning of the 16th century. Transfer of the relics of St. Theodore Tyrone was […]
Novi Pazar Saint Peter church – Serbia
Church of St. Peter and Paul called Peter’s Church in Serbia (February 2016) Today is the great Christian holiday of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, better known as St. Peter’s Day. One of the oldest churches in Serbia that is still used today is actually Peter’s Church in Novi Pazar. The church has the […]
Church of saint Nikola – Serbia
Church of saint Nikola (September 2012) Kursumlija is a town in the south of Serbia in the Toplica district. The monastery of St. Nicholas is the first endowment of Stefan Nemanja until he was proclaimed a great zupan. The monastery was built between 1159 and 1166. on the hill above the mouth of the river […]
Gracanica monastery – Serbia
Gracanica Monastery Kosovo and Metohia – Serbia (April 2013) Gracanica Monastery is located 10 km from Pristina on the left bank of the river Gracanka. The church of the Gracanica monastery was built by the Serbian King Milutin in 1321. and dedicated it to the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God. The monastery […]
St. Mark Church – Serbia
St. Mark church, Lajkovac (September 2020) The village of St. Mark Church is located 8 km west of Lajkovac. The monastery is dedicated to St. Dimitrija, and it was most likely built by monks who escaped from Mark’s monastery near Skopje during the first half of the 15th century. According to folk tradition, the three […]
Rača Monastery next to the Drina – Serbia
Rača Monastery, one of the important medieval monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church, had a very important spiritual, cultural, educational and historical role for the serbian people in the past. The monastery is located at the foot of Mount Tara, 3 km from the Drina River. According to legend, the monastery was built by King […]
Latin Church Matejevac
The Latin church (September 2020) is located on Metoh hill near the village of Gornji Matejevac in the vicinity of Niš. Built in the first half of the 11th century, it is one of the few preserved churches from the Byzantine period. In the people, the church is often called the Latin Church and the […]
