Morača (monastery)
| Morača Monastery Манастир Морача Manastir Morača | |
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Rascian style | |
| Completed | 1252 |
The Morača Monastery (
History
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).[1] The region was under the rule of the Nemanjić dynasty and the founder himself was grandson of Stefan Nemanja, father of the Serbian statehood.[1]
The monastery was burned by the Ottomans for the first time in 1505, during a turbulent period of insurgency in Montenegro. The monks took shelter in
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 the Bay of Kotor be excluded" (resulting in its incorporation into PR Montenegro).[4]
Architecture and art
The main sanctuary (katholikon) is a big one-nave church built in the
The two main portals are in Romanesque style. The church 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
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.
See also
- List of Serbian monasteries
- Stanjevići Monastery
- Piva Monastery
- Savina Monastery
- Cetinje Monastery
- Podmaine Monastery
- Reževići Monastery
- Dajbabe Monastery
- Burčele Monastery
- Ostrog Monastery
References
- ^ a b Fine 1994, p. 203
- ^ "Istorija". vremenskalinija.me. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015.
- ^ Chadwick, "The growth of literature, Volume 2" (), p. 427
- ^ Banac, Ivo, "With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist splits in Yugoslav Communism" (), p. 104
- ^ Mitchell 2010, p. 42
- ^ Paul Atkins Underwood, "The Kariye Djami, Volume 1", p. 131
- ^ John-Paul Himka, "Last Judgment iconography in the Carpathians" (2009), p. 40
Sources
- Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994), The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5
- Mitchell, Laurence (2010). Serbia. Buckinghamshire, England: Bradt. ISBN 978-1-84162-326-9.
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