The Pustinja Monastery ( sr, Манастир Пустиња, Manastir Pustinja) 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 churches.
The majority of the population in ...
monastery in village Poćuta near
Valjevo
Valjevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ваљево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Kolubara District in western Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the administrative area of Valjevo had 90,312 inhabitants, 59,073 of whom were urban dwel ...
in Central
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 ...
.
According to local legends this monastery was built in the 13th century by
king Dragutin. Scientific researches found that the monastery was actually built in 1622 on the remnants of the older monastery which was built in the 11th century. The construction of the monastery has been completed on 25 June 1622.
Architecture
The monastery was built in the
Raška architectural school. In terms of architectural and spatial traits, there is resemblance between the
Uvac Monastery, Church of the Annunciation Monastery in
Ovčar Banja
Ovčar Banja ( sr-cyr, Овчар Бања) is a village and a spa located in the city of Čačak, Serbia. Located near the Ovčar-Kablar Gorge in the valley of the West Morava, it is known as the "Serbian Mount Athos" because of the numerous mona ...
, Pustinja Monastery,
Dobrilovina Monastery,
Majstorovina Monastery,
Tronoša Monastery and others.
See also
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List of Serb Orthodox monasteries
This is a list of Serbian Orthodox Christian monasteries in Serbia and near areas (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Kosovo), also Romania, Hungary, Greece, Germany, United States of America, Canada, and Australi ...
References
External links
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Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia
Architecture in Serbia
Cultural Monuments of Great Importance (Serbia)
1625 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
17th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Nemanjić dynasty endowments