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The Tuman Monastery ( sr, Манастир Туман, Manastir Tuman) is a 14th-century
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monastery in eastern
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, in the municipality of
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. It belongs to the
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. It is also referred to as the Tumane Monastery. The church is dedicated to the Saint Archangel
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. As of 2018, the monastery has six monks and one nun, which makes it the largest one in the
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. Because of the several historical healers who dwelled in the monastery, Tuman has been called " Ostrog of the
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".


Location

The monastery is situated in the valley of the river of ''Tumanska reka'', south-east of
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. It is located in the village of Snegotin, though it is outside of the village itself, in the forested, secluded depression area of the north-west section of the ''Severni Kučaj'' mountain. South of the monastery rises the peak of ''Crni Vrh Tumanski'' ("Black Peak of Tuman"). The forests which encircle the monastery are estimated to be over a century old as of 2018.


Origin

Historically, the building of the monastery began in the second half of the 14th century and was finished just before the
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in 1389. It was endowed by one of the vojvodas of the Serbian
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, but it is not known exactly by which one. Local legends name the knight
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, who had a court at the neighboring village of Dvorište, as the ''
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'' of the monastery. While Obilić was hunting in the forest, he accidentally wounded Zosimus the Sinait, who lived in the neighboring cave. Obilić took Zosimus to the healer who lived at his court, but Zosimus told him to leave him to die. At the place where he died, as an act of repentance, Obilić started building the church. When he got to the roof, he received a letter from Prince Lazar who summoned him for the Battle of Kosovo. Since Obilić died in the battle, local Vlach population finished the church, around which the monastery developed. The word ''tuman'', today perished from the Serbian language, means "fog" or "mist", as it still does in the
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it means "cloud". As the word got obscured in time,
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explained the name with two sayings from the myth of the monastery's origin. First Zosimus Sinait, when said to Obilić to leave him to die (''Tu mani, i pusti me da umrem''; "Leave it, and let me die") and then Prince Lazar in his letter (''Tu mani zidanje manastira, skupljaj svoje Stižane i pohitaj na Kosovo da branimo zemlju''; "Leave the building of the monastery, gather your Stižani and hurry to
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to defend the country"). suggested that the name may be derived from the Greek ''τύμβος'' (Latin ''
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''), meaning grave, or burial mound. Apart from Tuman and Tumane, a variant Tumani also appears. Due to the obscured origins of both the monastery and its name, "each name is correct".


History

First survived mentions of the monastery are from the 16th century. In the second half of the 16th century, the Tuman
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Code was written in the monastery. The monastery was mentioned in the Ottoman census of 1572-1573. It was also mentioned, so as the village of Tuman which doesn't exist today, during the reign of the Ottoman sultan
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(1574–1595), in the context of tributes the monastery had to pay to the sultan. It was recorded that it had two monks at the time. It appears that during the Ottoman period, Tuman was a small monastery, with never more than couple of resident monks. In 1690, prior to the first
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, Serbian patriarch
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met with
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in the monastery. They tried to reach an agreement on starting an anti-Ottoman rebellion among the Serbs in the
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region. In 1735, acting ''
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'' Isaija was mentioned as attending the in
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. In the first half of the 18th century, the Metropolitan of Belgrade dispatched
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Maksim Ratković to inspect the monasteries in Braničevo. Maksim described Tuman as one of the rare monasteries which had proper roof tiles. This monastery was burned by the Ottomans during the 1788 Koča's frontier rebellion but was restored in 1797, only to be damaged again in both the
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(1804–13) and the
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(1815). The monastery was rebuilt thanks to the local ''
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'' Pavle Bogdanović during the reign of prince
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, when the neighboring monasteries of Nimnik,
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and Zaova were also reconstructed. When
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visited the locality he noted that the church is small, properly arranged according to the Christian rules, with partly painted interiors. In 1879 it was damaged in an earthquake and was repaired in 1883. However, the church continued to deteriorate, and the government ordered demolition of the old church in 1910 as the new one was to be built. However, the
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and the
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postponed the works, so the new church was finished and consecrated in 1924. Still, the monastery remained active even in the period when it had no church. In 1936 a group of 30 Russian monks from the Milykovo Monastery moved in, bringing an old Russian icon, The
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of
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, which previously survived two fires, including one in the monastery near Kursk, in Russia, after the
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. That same year, the remains of the Saint Zosimus were discovered. The influx of monks revived the monastery while rediscovered remains of Saint Zosimus resulted in large popularity and growing number of visitors. The economy of the monastery developed, and new buildings were added to the complex, including large '' konak'' and several auxiliary structures. The fast development was soon cut short by
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. Before the liberation, and entrance of the Soviet
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, Russian monks left Tuman. After the war, the monastery stagnated, but the konak, some of the other buildings, and Zosimus' cave were slowly being repaired. As the number of monks dwindled, Tuman became a female monastery in 1966, on the recommendation of , the
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. Renaissance of the monastery began under the administration of '' hegumania'' Matrona. In 1991 the stone
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was built and the
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es were painted on the walls. Due to the declining number of nuns, bishop of Braničevo
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turns the monastery into male again in 2014, when three monks arrived. A massive renovation ensued from 2016 to 2018, including reconstruction of the church itself, old and new ''konak'',
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,
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of the Saint Zosimus ( south of the monastery) and a diner. Across the church, on the left bank of the ''Tumanska reka'' is an reception-inn (''gostoprimnica''), actually an adapted watermill which was closed in the 1960s. Next to the old one, the new watermill, with the traditional
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was built, and is in use, mostly for grinding corn. Also, the mini-zoo was formed. The monastery has its own economy, mostly concentrated on the
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, like cattle, sheep, goats, poultry nd donkeys but also some wild animals, in and out of the mini-zoo:
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s,
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es, swans, geese, ducks,
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s,
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s, donkeys,
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, black-headed sheep,
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s, turtles,
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s,
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and
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. Some animals were donated by the
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Zoo. There is also a garden, hoop house,
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fish pond and 150 beehives. The monastery continued to grow and by the early 2020s it had 12 monks and several nuns, having, on average, the youngest brethren in Serbia. In 2022, construction of the auxiliary, two-floor building began. It will host the logging and hospitality area for 120 guests, a library with 50,000 books, and a
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.


Notable clergymen


Saint Zosimus of Tuman

Almost immediately after the monastery was completed, a group of the ''Sinait'' monks (meaning they originated from the
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) settled in the caves in the vicinity. A large number of Sinait monks from the
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migrated to Serbia in the mid-14th century, fleeing the Ottoman invasion. They all settled in the caves throughout Serbia, due to their
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lifestyle. Zosimus Sinait, later named
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Zosimus of Tuman, headed the group which settled around the monastery. He was known for the extreme fasting and praying in his poustinia-rocky cave until his death. Zosimus' remains are today the central relic of the monastery. He is also known as Sinait the Miracle Worker and his day is observed on 21 August. The Zosimos' cave is embedded in the rock surrounded by old, thick forest. There are actually two caves, connected by the narrow passage. Zosimos lived in one, and prayed in the other cave. Next to the former
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is a small chapel.
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s in the cave are preserved. There is also a "miraculous" water spring next to the cave, so as a small waterfall. The last hermit who dwelled in the cave was ''
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'' Pahomije, who died in 1965.


Saint Jacob the New of Tuman

Radoje Arsović (1893–1946) was a highly educated diplomat, with a Ph.D. in philosophy received at the
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, and Ph.D. in law, from the
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. He left the state service and became a monk Jakov in the
Žiča monastery The Žiča Monastery ( sr, Манастир Жича, Manastir Žiča, or ) is an early 13th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia. The monastery, together with the Church of the Holy Dormition, was built by the first King of ...
. A missionary and a preacher, he was tortured by the Communist authorities after
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and died in the village of Rabrovo, not far from the Tuman Monastery in which he was buried, according to his own wish. In October 2014 it was discovered that his remains were free of decay after almost 70 years. In May 2017 he was canonized, and his day is observed also on 21 August.


Saint Elder Tadej of Vitovnica

Elder Tadej Štrbulović was
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of the Tumane Monastery until 1962.


References


External links


Official site of the Tuman Monastery
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