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Upper church of Ostrog monastery View from Ostrog upper monastery to Bjelopavlići plain. The Monastery was founded in the early 17th century by Vasilije Jovanović, the Metropolitan of Herzegovina, and is first mentioned on a geographical map of Montenegro from 1640. [2] Vasilije died there in 1671 and some years later he was glorified.
The Morača Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Морача, romanized: Manastir Morača) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the valley of the Morača River in Kolašin, central Montenegro. It was founded in 1252 by Stefan Vukanović, of the Serbian Nemanjić dynasty. It is one of the best known medieval monuments of Montenegro.
It is believed that the monastery was about twenty metres long and about six metres wide based upon the monastery's original designs by the Venetian engineer, Barbieri. In an etching in the book Oktoih, it seems the medieval Cetinje Monastery was a three-naved basilica, with a cupola on the center nave with elements of renaissance architecture ...
The Moračnik Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Морачник, romanized: Manastir Moračnik) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on Moračnik island on Skadar Lake in modern-day Montenegro. It is positioned across from the village of Bobovište , whose residents used it as their church before they converted to Islam .
There are several cave monasteries (built into mountains and caves) of the Serbian Orthodox Church, including those of the Holy Annunciation, Kovilje, Crna Reka, Gornjak, Hermitage of St. Peter Koriški, Kađenica, Lukovo, Rsovci, Savina, in Serbia, and Ostrog monastery, in Montenegro.
The Đurđevi Stupovi Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Ђурђеви ступови, romanized: Manastir Đurđevi stupovi, lit. "Monastery of the Pillars of St. George") is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near the town of Berane , in northeastern Montenegro .
The Stanjevići Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Стањевићи, romanized: Manastir Stanjevići) is located north of the town of Budva, Montenegro. [1] Founded by Nikola Stanjević, the monastery is remembered as the Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro and the place where the praviteljstvo suda (judicial administration) and zakonik (legal code) for Montenegro and the Brda was promulgated ...
The Savina Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Савина, romanized: Manastir Savina; lit. "Sava's monastery") is a Serbian Orthodox monastery of three churches near the city Herceg Novi in the Bay of Kotor , located in thick Mediterranean vegetation in one of the most beautiful parts of the Montenegrin Littoral .