Prohor Pčinjski

Prohor Pčinjski monastery

View of the Prohor Pčinjski.
Monastery information
Full Name Манастир Прохор Пчињски
Order Serbian Orthodox
Established 1067–1071
Dedicated to Saint Prohor Pčinjski
Diocese Eparchy of Raška and Prizren
People
Founder(s) Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV
Site
Location Klenike, Serbia
Other information Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance

Prohor Pčinjski (Serbian Cyrillic: Прохор Пчињски) is an 11th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery in the deep south of Serbia, located in village Klenike, Pčinja District near the border with Macedonia. It is situated at the slopes of Kozjak at the left side of the Pčinja river.[1]

According to tradition, it was founded 1067–1071 by the Byzantine emperor Romanus IV in honour of Saint Prohor Pčinjski, who prophesied that Romanus would become the emperor. Within the monastery there is a theological school and iconography is taught there.

The first plenary session of ASNOM (The Anti-Fascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia) was convened on August 2, 1944 in Prohor Pčinjski.

The monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia.

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