The Banja Monastery () is a
Serbian Orthodox Monastery located near
Priboj
Priboj ( sr-Cyrl, Прибој, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia. The population of the town is 13,172, while the population of the municipality is 23,514.
Geography
The municipality of Priboj i ...
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Serbia
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. Monastery Banja presents
Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance in Serbia.
History
The precise time of the monastery's founding is unknown, but the first historical sources (
Studenica Typicon
The Studenica Typikon () is a Serbian Orthodox ''typikon'' written in 1208 by Serbian Archbishop Sava, a member of the Nemanjić dynasty and the first head of the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church. The preface includes the '' Hagiography of St ...
) mention it in the 12th century.
In 1220 Banja became center of Serbian Orthodox
Eparchy of Dabar
The Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosnia () is a metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina, seated in Sarajevo. Since 2017, Metropolitan of Dabar and Bosnia is Hrizostom Jević.
History
The medieval Eparchy of Dabar () ...
. There are three churches within the monastery, the Church of St. Nicholas, of St. Eliah and the Church of Ascension of the Holy Virgin. St. Nicholas Church, the main monastery church, was founded by King
Stefan Dečanski
Stefan Uroš III, , known as Stefan of Dečani ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Дечански, Stefan Dečanski, ( – 11 November 1331), was King of Serbia from 6 January 1322 to 8 September 1331. Dečanski was the son of King Stefan Milutin (). He ...
(r. 1322–31) in 1329. The original church was burned during the
Ottoman invasion.
[ Itzkowitz, Norman (1980). Ottoman Empire and Islamic tradition. University of Chicago Press] The church was restored in 1570 and gained its present look in 1904 when the last restoration took place. The monastery was not only center of the bishopric but the mausoleum of
Vojnović noble family
The Vojnović family (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: Војновић, Vojnovići / Војновићи) or Vojinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Војиновић, Vojinovići / Војиновићи), was a Serbs, Serbian noble family ...
.
See also
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Tourism in Serbia
Tourism in Serbia is officially recognized as a primary area for economic and social growth. The hotel and catering sector accounted for approximately 2.2% of GDP in 2015. Tourism in Serbia employs some 120 000 people, about 4.5% of the countr ...
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Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church#Constit ...
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Priboj
Priboj ( sr-Cyrl, Прибој, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia. The population of the town is 13,172, while the population of the municipality is 23,514.
Geography
The municipality of Priboj i ...
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{{Cultural Heritage of Exceptional Importance
14th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia
Nemanjić dynasty endowments
Priboj
Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)
1329 establishments in Europe
Christian monasteries established in the 1320s
Medieval Serbian Orthodox monasteries