Krka monastery

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Krka Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Крка or Manastir Krka) is a Serb Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael, located near the river Krka in central Dalmatia, Croatia. It is the best known monastery of the Serb Orthodox Church in Croatia and it is officially protected as part of the Krka National Park.

[edit] History

The monastery was founded by Jelena, sister of the Serbian emperor emperor Dušan, wife (and later widow) of a local duke Šubić.This monastery was built on the foundations of an earlier one.

The monks of this monastery in the 17th c. were forced to flee from from Ottomans. They've found shelter in Zadar, where pope Innocent X in 1655 gave them two churches, that were the ownership of Franciscans of the Third Order, the "Glagolitians" (glagoljaši) .^[1]

The last destruction in the history of the monastery happened after Operation Storm in 1995 when the monastery was looted by Croatian para-militaries and the seminary shut down. Some of the damage was since repaired and the seminary was reopened in 2001, but the priceless stolen property of prominent cultural heritage hasn't been found.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Architectural features

The belltower of this monastery was je "built in the Romanic style" ^[2][1].

The complex also includes a chapel of Saint Sava built in the 19th century, as well as the new building of the seminary and an additional dormitory building. There is also a treasury containing numerous valuable icons and other church-related objects, and two old libraries with a variety of ancient books.

[edit] See also

• List of Serb Orthodox Monasteries

[edit] Literature

• dr. Marko Japundžić: Tragom hrvatskoga glagolizma, KS, Zagreb, 1995., p. 51-54, 978-953-151-060-1
• Mato Marčinko: Novi velikosrpski memorandum nazvan Deklaracija, feuilleton in Politički zatvorenik magazine, nr. 64/65 Jul/Aug 1997 - nr. 86 Aug 1999

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} (Croatian)Vjesnik In one contract with the Franciscans, the monks of the Krka monastery declared "that they live in the service of the Greek Church of the old Illyrian language" ("žive u službi grčke Crkve staroga ilirskoga jezika").
2. ^ Enciklopedija likovnih umjetnosti, 3, Zagreb, 1964., p. 251

[edit] External links

• Website of the Monastery (in English)
• (Croatian) Pravoslavni manastir sv. Arhanđela Mihaila na rijeci Krki sagraðen je na temeljima katolièkoga samostana
• (Croatian) Banac, Ivo [1] : The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, Cornell University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0801494932