VELIKA REMETA MONASTERY – Velika Remeta

VELIKA REMETA MONASTERY – Velika Remeta

VELIKA REMETA MONASTERY, with its church dedicated to St. Demetrius, is traditionally linked to King Dragutin, but it more likely originated at the end of the 15th century or in the early decades of the 16th century. The monastery is first mentioned under the name Velika Remeta in 1562.

The church was built as a single-nave structure with a dome and a narthex. The Baroque bell tower, perfectly aligned with the church facade, was added in 1735. The residential buildings (konaks) were constructed between 1722 and 1771.

The present monastery complex is very old, with construction believed to have begun as early as the 15th century. The Baroque bell tower was added in 1735 and is dedicated to the Nativity of St. John the Forerunner (St. John the Baptist). The church facade was adapted to the Baroque style between 1733 and 1753. New icons for the iconostasis were created in the first half of the 18th century, though the main icons are older. These icons were painted in 1687 by the court Russian iconographers Leontiy Stefanov, Ioan Maksimov, and Spiridon Grigorev.

At the beginning of World War II, Ustaše units occupied the monastery and remained there until the spring of 1943. On September 10, 1941, a commission from the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb came to inventory the monastery’s property and transport it to Zagreb. Only about 60 items were taken, indicating that much of the monastery’s property had already been stolen or destroyed. In the spring of 1943, as the Ustaše were leaving, they set the monastery on fire. Velika Remeta was restored in 1982.

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