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The Mileševa Monastery (Serbian Cyrillic: Манастир Милешева, romanized: Manastir Mileševa, pronounced [mîlɛʃɛʋa] or [milɛ̌ʃɛʋa]) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located near Prijepolje, in southwest Serbia. It was founded by King Stefan Vladislav I, [1] in the years between 1234 and 1236.
The fresco is located in the Mileševa Monastery near Prijepolje, on the southern wall of the church and the identity of its author is unknown. [2] In the 16th century, the White Angel was over-painted with another fresco, and so was hidden until the 20th century when the fresco was restored.
Eparchy has often changed the name, but he always had a seat in the Mileševa monastery. On the Establishment Mileševo Metropolia very little is known. In a service Saint Sava it is called "Glorious Archbishopric". One Metropolitan Bishop of Mileševa, whose name is unknown, crowned ban Tvrtko I of Bosnia as Serbian king and Bosnian King in 1377.
The Mileševa printing house (Serbian: Милешевска штампарија) was a printing house established in 1544 in the Mileševa monastery near Prijepolje, Ottoman Empire (modern day Serbia). Three srbulje books were printed in this printing house. Two in 1544 and 1545 and one in 1557.
Additionally, two towers were built as outposts safeguarding the Mileševa monastery. The monastery itself is one of the most important Serbian sanctuaries and spiritual centers, and a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia. Monastery and the Mileševac fortification above
The Mileševa monastery is located 6 km to the east of Prijepolje on the Mileševka River. The monastery is famous for The White Angel fresco, a famous and widely used religious icon in Serbia as well as being the former resting place of St. Sava, Serbia's most honored patriarch.
The Mileševa Monastery, built in 1234 near Prijepolje, was the endowment of King Stefan Vladislav I of Serbia, the son of Stefan the First-Crowned. This monastery was the second most important in Serbia, after it received the bones of Serbia's most revered patriarch, Saint Sava, in 1236. The monastery has been destroyed and rebuilt several ...
Vladislav obtained the remains and buried them in the Mileševa monastery, which he had built intended to be his burial place. [7] Serbia was politically aligned with Bulgaria at the time, [8] since Vladislav was married to Beloslava, the daughter of Ivan Asen II. [9] Vladislav secured Hum, a maritime province under attack by Hungarian crusaders.