St. Marena's Monastery ( sq, Manastiri i Shën Marenës) is a monastery near Llëngë, Korçë County, Albania, dedicated to

Marena the Monk Marena ( mk, Марена) is a village in the municipality of Kavadarci, North Macedonia. Demographics According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 576 inhabitants lived in Marena, 300 Muslim Bulgarians, 270 ...

and built in the 17th century. It is a Cultural Monument of Albania.

Description

The church is a small building around 12 meters long. The altar is divided from the central nave by a wooden carved

iconostas In Eastern Christianity, an iconostasis ( gr, εἰκονοστάσιον) is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a church. ''Iconostasis'' also refers to a portable icon stand that can be plac ...

. All the interiors are frescoed by 18th century paintings of Kostandin Shpataraku.

References

{{Religious Cultural Monuments in Korçë County 14th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings Cultural Monuments of Albania Buildings and structures in Pogradec