RAVANICA MONASTERY – Vrdnik

RAVANICA MONASTERY – Vrdnik

Ravanica Monastery – Vrdnik, with its church originally dedicated to St. John the Baptist and today to the Ascension, is mentioned in documents from 1566–1569. After the Great Migration, monks from the Ravanica Monastery in Serbia transferred the relics of Prince Lazar to Szentendre, from where they were brought to Vrdnik in 1687.

The church was built between 1801 and 1811 in the Neoclassical style. The icons on the iconostasis and the wall paintings on the vaults were done in 1853 by Dimitrije Avramović. The frescoes in the monastery dining hall were painted by Amvrosije Janković from 1771 to 1776.

The first records of the monastery are found in the menaion written by Hieromonk Georgije in Vrdnik in 1589. The relics of Prince Lazar were kept at this monastery for a long time. Today, only a portion of the relics remains at Ravanica in Vrdnik, displayed in a glass container embedded in the reliquary.

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