BEOČIN MONASTERY – Beočin

BEOČIN MONASTERY – Beočin

Beočin Monastery, with its church dedicated to the Feast of the Ascension of Christ, is located on the edge of Fruška Gora in the village of the same name. It belongs to the Srem Eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church and is recognized as an immovable cultural monument of exceptional importance.

There are no reliable records of the monastery’s founding. It is first mentioned in Ottoman documents from 1566–1567, at which time it had a small single-nave church, believed to have been built under the influence of traditional architecture. During the Austro-Turkish wars, the monastery was damaged and abandoned. After the Great Serbian Migration, the monastery was restored by monks fleeing from the Rača Monastery between 1697 and 1699. These same monks built a temporary church in 1708.

The present monastery church was constructed between 1732 and 1734, and the three-story bell tower attached to the western façade of the church was built in 1762. The monastery residential buildings (konaks), constructed between 1728 and 1771, surround the church on the south and west sides. The monastery complex was fully restored in 1893, with minor modifications in 1921. A new chapel, which stands today, was built in 1905 according to the design of Vladimir Nikolić. During World War II, the monastery was devastated, though the buildings themselves remained intact. The Serbian poet Jovan Grčić Milenko spent his final days at the Beočin Monastery.

The iconostasis in the monastery church was painted by Dimitrije Bačević, Janko Halkozović, and Teodor Kračun during the sixth and seventh decades of the 18th century.

Saint Bishop Varnava Nastić, who passed away on November 12, 1964, was burried in the monastery.

Manastirski put, Beočin
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