The Kom Monastery ( sr, Манастир Ком, Manastir Kom) is an

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canoni ...

monastery in

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. It is located on the small island of Odrinska gora, close to

Žabljak Crnojevića Žabljak Crnojevića ( sr-cyrl, Жабљак Црнојевића, ), commonly referred to as Žabljak, is an abandoned medieval fortified town (fortress) in Montenegro. The fortress is located on the confluence of the Morača river in Lake Ska ...

, where the Crnojević River flows into the western section of

Lake Skadar Lake Skadar ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Скадарско језеро, Skadarsko jezero, ; sq, Liqeni i Shkodrës, ) also called Lake Scutari, Lake Shkodër and Lake Shkodra lies on the border of Albania and Montenegro, and is the largest lake in Southern ...

. The Kom Monastery was built between 1415 and 1427, as an endowment of

Đurađ Đurađ ( sr-Cyrl, Ђурађ, ; ) is a Serbian masculine given name, derived from the Greek ''Georgios''. It is also transliterated as Djuradj. It is, along with the variant '' Đorđe'', the equivalent of the English '' George''. It was wides ...

and Aleksa (Lješ) Đurašević, members of the

Crnojević noble family ), Courtier (Дворски достојанственик, Челник), Knight (Витез), Baron ( it, Baronez), Duke (Војвода), Lord (Господар), Captain (Kaпetaн), Governor-General (''Bey'', Бeг) , founded =before 1326, ...

.Kalezić 2002, p. 1010 The monastery continued the cult of the

Virgin Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jews, Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Saint Joseph, Jose ...

, which had been greatly expanded during the earlier rule of the Balšići. The monastery also continued the tradition of building

mausoleum A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be con ...

s. The oldest frescoes in the monastery are from the second half of the 15th century. For a short period of time, the monastery was the seat of the Zetan Metropolitanate. In the Kom Monastery in 1831,

Petar II Petrović-Njegoš Petar II Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-cyrl, Петар II Петровић-Његош, ; – ), commonly referred to simply as Njegoš (), was a Prince-Bishop (''vladika'') of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered ...

was appointed as the archimandrate of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro.

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* *Istorijski Leksikon Crne Gore: K-Per {{coord missing, Montenegro 15th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings Medieval Montenegro Crnojević noble family Cetinje Municipality Monasteries in Montenegro