Church of St. Michael, Štip

Church of St Michael (Macedonian Cyrillic: Свети Архангел Михаил), also called Fitija (Фитија) is the most valuable medieval monument of Štip, North Macedonia.

The church was built as the central feature of a monastery in 1332. Its endower was

Chilandar, the Serbian monastery in Holy Mount Athos.^[2] The donation was confirmed in 1381 by the new lord of Štip Konstantin Dejanović with a charter.^[3]

In Ottoman times the church was turned into a mosque and lost its frescoes.

St Michael has a cross-in-rectangle base with a dome above it. The outer decoration shows all the signs of fine

Byzantine

architecture with facades in layers of bricks and stone.

Today the church is just a chapel (paraklis). Until recently it had an old iconostasis with icons by Georgi Zoografski but in 2000 it got a new, marble one, painted by Pero of Skopje.^[4]

References

^ М. Благојевић, Србија у доба Немањића, Београд 1989, стр. 184, 202
^ Blago na putevima Jugoslavije, Beograd 1983, str. 573
^ К. Н. Костић, Наши нови градови на Југу, Београд 1922, стр. 106
^ Родителска категорија: Храмови (2010-01-15). "Параклис "Свети Архангел Михаил" (Фитијата) – Штип". Bregalnickaeparhija.org.mk. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2016-11-14.

41°44′20″N 22°11′17″E / 41.7389°N 22.1881°E / 41.7389; 22.1881

[1] М. Благојевић, Србија у доба Немањића, Београд 1989, стр. 184, 202

[2] Blago na putevima Jugoslavije, Beograd 1983, str. 573

[3] К. Н. Костић, Наши нови градови на Југу, Београд 1922, стр. 106

[4] Родителска категорија: Храмови (2010-01-15). "Параклис "Свети Архангел Михаил" (Фитијата) – Штип". Bregalnickaeparhija.org.mk. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2016-11-14.

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