The Ajdanovac Monastery () is a

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Monastery, located in the same-named village of Ajdanovac, on the slopes of

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, in south-east

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. It was probably built somewhere after the Ottoman invasion of the

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in the year 1485. It went under renovation in 1887 and served as a parish up to 1936 when it became a monastery again.Водич- Пут православних манастира и цпкава Србије и Црногоре

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