
The Stara Pavlica Monastery ( sr, Манастир Стара Павлица, Manastir Stara Pavlica) is a medieval
Serbian Orthodox
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
The majority of the population in ...
monastery located in
Pavlica, Raška, in south
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 Hung ...
on a rocky plateau above the Ibar River, six kilometres north of the town of
Raška.
It is believed to have originated in the pre-
Nemanjić Dynasty
The House of Nemanjić ( sr-Cyrl, Немањић, Немањићи; Nemanjić, Nemanjići, ) was the most prominent dynasty of Serbia in the Middle Ages. This princely, royal, and later imperial house produced twelve Serbian monarchs, who rul ...
at the end of the 11th century. The monastery is first mentioned in the charter of King Stefan the First Crowned, and parts of the church were restored during the 1970s. The monastery church is dedicated to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
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12th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Nemanjić dynasty endowments
Raška District
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia
Monasteries of the Eparchy of Žiča
Cultural Monuments of Great Importance (Serbia)