The Staro Hopovo Monastery () is a

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on the

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mountain in the northern

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, in the province of

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. According to tradition, the monastery was founded by bishop Maksim ( despot

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). The first reliable mention of the monastery dates back to 1545/1546. It is on the basis of some data from 1751 that an earlier church with timber walls dedicated to St. Nicholas existed. The old church which had collapsed in an earthquake was in 1752 substituted with the extant single-nave building dedicated to St. Panteleimon. The woodcarving of the

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of Staro Hopovo was completed in 1793, and the paintings by

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and Kuzman Kolarić. Staro Hopovo Monastery was declared

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in 1990, and it is protected by

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