The Morača Monastery ( Serbian : Манастир Морача , romanized : Manastir Morača ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the valley of the Morača River in Kolašin , central Montenegro . It was founded in 1252 by Stefan Vukanović , of the Serbian Nemanjić dynasty . It is one of the best known medieval monuments of Montenegro.
11-604: The founding history is engraved above the western portal. Stefan , a son of the Grand Prince of Zeta Vukan Nemanjić (r. 1190-1207), founded the monastery in 1252, possibly on his own lands (appanage). The region was under the rule of the Nemanjić dynasty and the founder himself was grandson of Stefan Nemanja , father of the Serbian statehood. The monastery was burned by the Ottomans for
22-459: Is devoted to the Assumption of Mary , while a minor chapel is devoted to Saint Nicholas . Besides architecture, frescoes are also of special importance. The oldest are eleven compositions representing the life of prophet Elias and date back to the 13th century. They show conservative traits, with late-Comnenian figure schemes and architectural motifs of heavy and solid blocks, similar in manner to
33-708: The Bay of Kotor be excluded" (resulting in its incorporation into PR Montenegro ). The main sanctuary ( katholikon ) is a big one-nave church built in the Rascian style , which developed from 1170 as first of three major artistic and architectural schools of medieval Serbia (also visible in Studenica , Mileševa , Sopoćani , Arilje and, as regards Montenegro, in Berane and Bijelo Polje). The two main portals are in Romanesque style. The church
44-639: The Struma river . He then took monastic vows, under the name David . He had the Davidovica Monastery near Brodarevo on the Lim river built in August 1281, with the help of masons of Dubrovnik . He is mentioned in 1286 when he travelled to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage . He had a son, Vratislav . His grandson Vratko is the father of Milica Nemanjić, Princess of Serbia . He is venerated every September 24 (October 7 on
55-558: The Serbian language and collector of Serbian epic poems , recorded two poems regarding the Sack of Kolašin , in which in the beginning Novica Cerović and Serdar Milan drink wine together besides the white church in Morača. In July 1944, during World War II , a third session of the Yugoslav land assembly was held at the monastery, in which Montenegrin communists demanded that "the separate mention of
66-505: The eldest Đorđe , who was the Grand Prince of Zeta (1208–1216), and youngest Dmitar , a župan (county lord) and monk. In 1252, Stefan Vukanović built the Morača monastery . Stefan Vukanović built the monastery by the Morača river , in the heartlands of Duklja ( Zeta , in modern south-central Montenegro ). It was founded in 1252, during the rule of King Stefan Uroš I (r. 1243–1276), on
77-577: The first time in 1505, during a turbulent period of insurgency in Montenegro. The monks took shelter in Vasojevići . It was abandoned for the next seventy years. Thanks to a moderate political climate established by Sokollu Mehmed Pasha rebuilding started in 1574 and ended in 1580. Reconstruction itself was led by monks Tomo and Mojsije, and financially supported by the local population, especially knez Vukić Vučetić. Vuk Stefanović Karadžić , great reformer of
88-696: The frescoes of Sopoćani (Serbia). The others are less preserved and date back to the 16th century. Among them it is worth mentioning two notable Last Judgement depictions, a Paradise and the Bosom of Abraham and Satan on the Two-Headed Beast , both dated 1577-8. During the Ottoman annexation of the region in the first half of the 16th century, part of the original fresco cycle was damaged or lost. Stefan Vukanovi%C4%87 Nemanji%C4%87 Stefan Vukanović Nemanjić ( Serbian Cyrillic : Стефан Вукановић Немањић )
99-484: The right banks of the Morača, in the wide part of the Morača canyon, called Donja Morača . It overlooks the river from 40 metres above sea level. Nearby is the Svetigora waterfall, regarded the finest waterfall of Montenegro. This Serbian biographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dmitar Nemanji%C4%87 Dmitar Nemanjić ( Serbian Cyrillic : Дмитар Немањић , also Dimitrije )
110-623: Was a Serbian Prince , the son of Vukan Nemanjić and the nephew of King Stefan II the First-Crowned . He is venerated as Saint David Nemanjić with the title of the Venerable ( Prepodobni ) in the Serbian Orthodox Church . He was the son of Vukan Nemanjić , he had two brothers Đorđe and Stefan . In April 1271, he asked Emperor Michael VIII to grant the Chilandar a possession of
121-442: Was a Serbian prince , the son of Grand Prince Vukan Nemanjić (r. 1202-1204) and the nephew of Grand Prince and King Stefan the First-Crowned (r. 1196–1217;–1228). He built the Morača monastery . Stefan was the son of Grand Prince Vukan, who was self-styled "King of Duklja , Dalmatia , Travunia , Toplica and Hvosno " (1195), and ruled Serbia briefly in 1202-1204. Stefan Vukanović, titled knez ("prince") had two brothers,
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