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The Moračnik Monastery ( sr, Манастир Морачник, 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
The monastery was surrounded by
a stone wall and consisted of the following buildings: a church dedicated to the Holy Mother of God, residence, communal dining-hall and a tower with a chapel on top.
Bobovište
Bobovište ( sr-cyrl, Бобовиште) is a village in Serbia, in the municipality of Aleksinac in Nisava district. According to the census of 2002, there were 1,074 people (according to the census of 1991, there were 1,226 inhabitants).
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, whose residents used it as their church before they converted to Islam
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History
The name of the monastery is derived from the name of the island. The monastery was mentioned in the chapter issued by Balša III in 1417 by which he granted a salt evaporation pond to the monastery. It was built after 1400, probably between 1403 and 1417. The monastery was so poor in the 17th century that in 1665 its hegumen, together with hegumen and monks from Vranjina Monastery, requested help from Catholic bishop of Scutari Pjetër Bogdani. During Montenegrin-Ottoman war in 1853 monastery was attacked by Ottoman forces. Defended by three Leković brothers: Mališa, Savo and Andrija from the nearby Godinje village who were badly outnumbered, it was eventually captured while his defenders according to a local folklore died a heroic death. Until 1997, when the firstliturgy
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was done, the monastery was defunct. Pavel Rovinsky thought that this monastery was part of nearby Prečista Krajinska Monastery.
Layout
The monastery was surrounded by
a stone wall and consisted of the following buildings: a church dedicated to the Holy Mother of God, residence, communal dining-hall and a tower with a chapel on top.
See also
*List of Serb Orthodox monasteries
This is a list of Serbian Orthodox Christian monasteries in Serbia and near areas (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Kosovo), also Romania, Hungary, Greece, Germany, United States of America, Canada, and Australi ...
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Further reading
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moracnik Monastery Religious buildings and structures completed in 1417 15th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Montenegro Bar, Montenegro Medieval Montenegro Medieval Serbian Orthodox monasteries