The Velika Remeta Monastery ( sr, Манастир Велика Ремета, Manastir Velika Remeta) 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 denomination, Christian churches.
The majori ...
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 whi ...
located in the village of
Velika Remeta on the mountain
Fruška Gora
Fruška gora ( sr-Cyrl, Фрушка гора; hu, Tarcal-hegység) is a mountain in Syrmia, administratively part of Serbia with a part of its western side extending into eastern Croatia. The area under Serbian administration forms the country ...
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 Hungar ...
. It is one of several
monasteries of Fruška Gora. Traditionally, its founding is linked to King
Stefan Dragutin
Stefan Dragutin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Драгутин, hu, Dragutin István; 1244 – 12 March 1316) was King of Serbia from 1276 to 1282. From 1282, he ruled a separate kingdom which included northern Serbia, and (from 1284) the neigh ...
. The earliest historical records about the monastery date to 1562. It was declared
Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and it is protected by the
Republic of Serbia
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.
Gallery
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See also
Monasteries of Fruška Gora- Fruškać
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Mala Remeta monastery
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Tourism in Serbia
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List of Serbian Orthodox monasteries
Sources
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References
External links
Velika Remeta monastery- Fruškać
More about the monastery
Nemanjić dynasty endowments
Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia
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