The Monastery of
St. Melania the Roman ( sr, Манастир Свете Меланије Римљанке, ''Manastir Svete Melanije Rimljanke'') is a
Serbian Orthodox
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous ( ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
The majority of the population ...
monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer whic ...
located in the northeastern part of the city of
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbi ...
, in northern
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia ( Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hu ...
. It was founded in 1935 by the Bishop of Banat,
Georgije Letić, built in the Byzantine ecclesiastical style.
[Sava 1996]
Srpski jerarsi: od devetog do dvadesetog veka
p. 121: It was the first female monastery in
Banat
Banat (, ; hu, Bánság; sr, Банат, Banat) is a geographical and historical region that straddles Central and Eastern Europe and which is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania (the counties of ...
. The current bishop is Nikanor.
See also
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List of Serb Orthodox monasteries
This is a list of Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Christian Monastery, monasteries in Serbia and near areas (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Kosovo), also Romania, Hungary, Greece, Germany, United State ...
References
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20th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
20th-century Christian monasteries
1935 establishments in Serbia
Christian organizations established in 1935
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Vojvodina
Banat
Zrenjanin