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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Stone frieze of two monks with glasses at Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Recycled Roman inscribed stone work inside the chruch. Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter, Novi Pazar, Serbia...The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Old woman keeper of the key at Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre).
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  • Old woman keeper of the key at Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre).
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • Novi Pazar--St. Peter church, built 10th century and founded 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter--Fa. Matej, Olga Pleshkiova, Zica, Miloje--old woman was keeper of the key..The city also houses an old church from the 9th century[3], the church of St. Peter, referred to as Petrova crkva, which suffered offensive graffiti by ethnic Bosniaks in April 2008[3]. On a hilltop overlooking Novi Pazar is the 12th century monastery of ?ur?evi stupovi, long left in ruin, but recently restored and with a monastic community using it, with plate glass to keep out the weather and preserve the fine frescos. The fine main mosque of the city, the Altun-Alem mosque, is the largest in this region of the Balkans and dates from 16th century. There are various other historic Ottoman buildings, such as the fine 17th century Amir-agin Han, a 15th century Hammam, and the 15th century Turkish fortress (all gone but the walls, the site of which is now a pleasant walled park in the city centre)...Probably oldest church in Serbia
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  • 13th century fresco within the Church of Peter (Church of Saint Apostles Peter and Paul) built in about the 8th or 9th century upon the ruins of former churches was probably founded around 100 AD by a desciple of St. Peter. Archaeology evidence has found burials dating from the 5th century BC...In the 12th century, St. Sava, founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church was baptized here. The Church of Peter is probably oldest church in Serbia. It is located in Stari Ras near the city of Novi Pazar, Serbia.
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  • Façade details, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
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  • Façade and steps, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
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  • Arches of the city gateway to Vidin, Bulgaria.<br />
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Originally built by the Romans in the 3rd century, fortfied by the Bulgars  in the 10th through 14th century and finally by the Ottoman in the 17th.
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  • Famous and historic White Angel fresco within the church at the Monastery Mileševa, Serbia originally built in the early 13th century...Fresco: "Holy Chrism Bearers at the tomb", aka The White Angel (of Mile?iva), depicting the Angel Gabriel over the empty tomb of Jesus after rising to heaven...One of the finest examples of Serbo-Bizantine frescoe and artworks from the 13th century European middle ages ...The White Angel was the first image broadcast via the first satellite transmission via Telstar from the east to the west, Europe to America as a gesture of peace and civilization right after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. ..The same image was also broadcast to deep space as a communication to any extraterrestrial life that may be out in the universe.
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  • Façade, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
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  • The Little Church inside  the Basilica of Santa Maria of the Angels (Santa Maria degli Angeli). The Basilica built in the17th century encloses the 9th century little church, the Porziuncola (small portion), where St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan Orders in the early 13th century.
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  • St. Anthony the Abbot, Alter, Interior, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
    angier-1708-0843-spoleto.JPG
  • The Little Church inside  the Basilica of Santa Maria of the Angels (Santa Maria degli Angeli). The Basilica built in the17th century encloses the 9th century little church, the Porziuncola (small portion), where St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan Orders in the early 13th century.
    angier-1708-0938-santa_maria_degli_a...JPG
  • Nativity altar, the Basilica of Santa Maria of the Angels (Santa Maria degli Angeli). The Basilica built in the17th century encloses the 9th century little church, the Porziuncola (small portion), where St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan Orders in the early 13th century.
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  • Front (western) façade of the Basilica of Santa Maria of the Angels (Santa Maria degli Angeli), 17th century, which enclosed the 9th century little church, the Porziuncola, where St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan Orders in the early 13th century
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  • Alter, Interior, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
    angier-1708-0859-spoleto.JPG
  • Icon, Interior, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
    angier-1708-0841-spoleto.JPG
  • Famous and historic White Angel fresco within the church at the Monastery Mileseva, Serbia originally built in the early 13th century. Frescoe of "Holy Chrism Bearers at the tomb", aka The White Angel (of Mile?iva), depicting the Angel Gabriel over the empty tomb of Jesus after rising to heaven...One of the finest examples of Serbo-Bizantine frescoe and artworks from the 13th century European middle ages ...The White Angel was the first image broadcast via the first satellite transmission via Telstar from the east to the west, Europe to America as a gesture of peace and civilization right after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. ..The same image was also broadcast to deep space as a communication to any extraterrestrial life that may be out in the universe.
    angier-1209-mileseva-serbia-10007.JPG
  • Below-Roussanou Monastery (Saint Barbara of Russia-Agias Varvaras Roussanou), built 15th century. Above-Holy Monastery of St. Stephen built in the 16th century, Meteora, Greece, XVI century
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  • Moraca Monastery, Sinjajevina Mountains, 1252 AD--Church of St. Nicholas with iconography depicting the life of St. Elijah..Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the valley of the Moraca River in central Montenegro. It is one of the most monumental orthodox Middle Age monuments in Montenegro. It was founded in 1252 by Stefan, son of Vukan Nemanjic, king of Zeta, the grandson of Stefan Nemanja in 1252. This is written above the western portal..It consists of an assembly church, devoted to the Assumption of Mary, a small church, devoted to Saint Nicola, and a lodgings for travelers. The main door has a high wall which has two entrances. The assembly church is a big one-nave building in the style of Raska churches. It is different from the seaside churches. The main portal is in the romantic style..Beside the architecture, its paintings are of special importance. There is one painting preserved from the 13th century with 11 compositions from the life of the prophet Elias. This painting is in much better condition than all the others from the 16th century. Other paintings were ruined in the first part of 16th century when the Ottomans occupied the monastery and devastated it. They also carried away the lead roof.
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  • Moraca Monastery, Sinjajevina Mountains, 1252 AD--Church of St. Nicholas with iconography depicting the life of St. Elijah..Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the valley of the Moraca River in central Montenegro. It is one of the most monumental orthodox Middle Age monuments in Montenegro. It was founded in 1252 by Stefan, son of Vukan Nemanjic, king of Zeta, the grandson of Stefan Nemanja in 1252. This is written above the western portal..It consists of an assembly church, devoted to the Assumption of Mary, a small church, devoted to Saint Nicola, and a lodgings for travelers. The main door has a high wall which has two entrances. The assembly church is a big one-nave building in the style of Raska churches. It is different from the seaside churches. The main portal is in the romantic style..Beside the architecture, its paintings are of special importance. There is one painting preserved from the 13th century with 11 compositions from the life of the prophet Elias. This painting is in much better condition than all the others from the 16th century. Other paintings were ruined in the first part of 16th century when the Ottomans occupied the monastery and devastated it. They also carried away the lead roof.
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  • The Little Church inside  the Basilica of Santa Maria of the Angels (Santa Maria degli Angeli). The Basilica built in the17th century encloses the 9th century little church, the Porziuncola (small portion), where St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan Orders in the early 13th century.
    angier-1708-0929-santa_maria_degli_a...JPG
  • Church at the Monastery Mileseva, Serbia originally built in the 12th century...Icon of St. Sava created during his seating in the XII century.
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  • Church at the Monastery Mileševa, Serbia originally built in the 13th century. Frescoe of St. Sava created during a seating for the artist there in the early XIII century.
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  • Door with arche, Zica Monastery, The Red Monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005...The red paint is symbolic of the blood spilled by the martyrs of the church.
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  • Frescoes painted of saints and the worthy in the ceiling of the gate at Zica Monastery, The Red monastery, near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
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  • Monk with long beard, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10546.JPG
  • Monk with long beard, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10508.JPG
  • Smiling nun, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10506.JPG
  • Monk with beard, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10493.JPG
  • Hospitality with the monks and nuns offering slivowitza, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10498.JPG
  • Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10462.JPG
  • Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10471.JPG
  • Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10452.JPG
  • Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10454.JPG
  • Interior and icon, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10381.JPG
  • Exterior, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10421.JPG
  • Icon above the gate to Zica Monastery, The Red Monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
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  • Doors with arches, Zica Monastery, The Red Monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
    angier-0909-zica-3806.JPG
  • Peacock mosic walkway made from stone at the Zica Monastery, .The Red monastery, near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
    angier-0909-zica-3816.JPG
  • Frescoes painted of saints and the worthy in the ceiling of the gate at Zica Monastery, The Red monastery, near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
    angier-0909-zica-3778.JPG
  • Frescoes painted of saints and the worthy in the ceiling of the gate at Zica Monastery, The Red monastery, near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
    angier-0909-zica-3764.JPG
  • Apostle Peter holds a church above his head on a historic frescoe on the archway at Zica Monastery, The Red monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
    angier-0909-zica-3742.JPG
  • Zica Monastery, The Red Monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia, from the archway of the baptistry...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005...The red paint is symbolic of the blood spilled by the martyrs of the church.
    angier-0909-zica-3795.JPG
  • Hospitality with the monks and nuns, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10520.JPG
  • Hospitality with the monks and nuns, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10534.JPG
  • Interior and icon, Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10369.JPG
  • Gradac Monastery is above the river Gradacka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Raska and 12.5 km (7.8 mi) west of Brvenik and Ibar highway. The exact year of construction of the monastery is not known, but it is probably in the last quarter of the 13th century...Monastery founder is Helen of Anjou. Was built in the style of the Ra?ka school...It was re-roofed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1975.
    angier-1209-gradac-serbia-10311.JPG
  • Miloje Milinkovic at the Sebastian Dabovich grave in the cemetery at Zica Monastery, .The Red monastery--Gravesite of Sebastian Dabovich, founder of St. Sava Church, Jackson, Calif. His relics are interred in Jackson...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
    angier-0909-zica-3850.JPG
  • Frescoes painted of saints and the worthy in the ceiling of the gate at Zica Monastery, The Red monastery, near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
    angier-0909-zica-3822.JPG
  • Peacock mosic walkway made from stone at the Zica Monastery, .The Red monastery, near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
    angier-0909-zica-3782.JPG
  • Apostle Paul depicted in a historic fresco on the archway at Zica Monastery, The Red monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
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  • Interior of Zica Monastery, The Red monastery, near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005.
    angier-0909-zica-3738.JPG
  • Baptistry at Zica Monastery, The Red Monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia, from the archway of the baptistry...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005...The red paint is symbolic of the blood spilled by the martyrs of the church.
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  • Zica Monastery, The Red monastery through the arch gate, near Kraljevo, Serbia...The monastery was founded by King Stefan Prvovencani, the First-Crowned, and built in the early 13th century and received St. Sava as the first Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. The monastery was burned in a raid near the end of the 13th century and was subsequently deserted. Multiple renovations were carried out during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The most complete renovations were completed during the rein of King Milutin (1282-1321)..Nikolai Velimirovic was consecrated Bishop of Zica in 1919. Zica suffered damage during World War II which Bishop Nikolai was unable to restore, because of his arrest there in 1941. After the war Zica became a woman's monastery. Zica celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005...The red paint is symbolic of the blood spilled by the martyrs of the church.
    angier-0909-zica-3760.JPG
  • Nun. Interior, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
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  • Valued ceiling and dome, interior, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
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  • Valued ceiling, Interior, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
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  • Interior arches, San Pietro extra Moenia, founded in 419 to house the supposed chains that once bound St Peter. It was built over an ancient necropolis. Reconstruction occurred from the 12th century to the 15th century, when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.  Umbrian Romanesque.<br />
Rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style.
    angier-1708-0863-spoleto.JPG
  • Below-Roussanou Monastery (Saint Barbara of Russia-Agias Varvaras Roussanou), built 15th century. Above-Holy Monastery of St. Stephen built in the 16th century, Meteora, Greece, XVI century
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  • Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
<br />
Church where Miloje's father was baptized--<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
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  • Orthodox Baptistry, Battistero Neoniano (degli Ortodossi), the 5th century octagonal baptistry, Ravenna, Italy<br />
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Byzantine Mosaics from the 5h century
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  • Orthodox Baptistry, Battistero Neoniano (degli Ortodossi), the 5th century octagonal baptistry, Ravenna, Italy<br />
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Byzantine Mosaics from the 5h century
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  • Orthodox Baptistry, Battistero Neoniano (degli Ortodossi), the 5th century octagonal baptistry, Ravenna, Italy<br />
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Byzantine Mosaics from the 5h century
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  • Orthodox Baptistry, Battistero Neoniano (degli Ortodossi), the 5th century octagonal baptistry, Ravenna, Italy<br />
<br />
Byzantine Mosaics from the 5h century
    angier-1708-5098-ravenna.JPG
  • 5th century Mausoleo di Galla Plácida, 5th century chapel and mosaics, Ravenna, Italy
    angier-1708-4725-ravenna_01.JPG
  • Interior and ikonstas of Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
    angier-0909-mokra_gora-11593.JPG
  • Ditch diggers putting in a drainage pipe at Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
    angier-0909-mokra_gora-11578.JPG
  • Bell tower at Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century. Mokra Gora, Serbia.<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turkes and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still exist and there is a valuable iconostasis from the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icon of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
    angier-0909-mokra_gora-11538.JPG
  • Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
<br />
Church where Miloje's father was baptized--<br />
<br />
Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
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  • Frescoe of St. Sava created during his life within the Church of the Ascension of Jesus Christ at the Monastery Mileseva, Serbia originally built in the 13th century.
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  • Orthodox Baptistry, Battistero Neoniano (degli Ortodossi), the 5th century octagonal baptistry, Ravenna, Italy<br />
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Byzantine Mosaics from the 5h century
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  • Orthodox Baptistry, Battistero Neoniano (degli Ortodossi), the 5th century octagonal baptistry, Ravenna, Italy<br />
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Byzantine Mosaics from the 5h century
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  • Orthodox Baptistry, Battistero Neoniano (degli Ortodossi), the 5th century octagonal baptistry, Ravenna, Italy<br />
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Byzantine Mosaics from the 5h century
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  • 5th century Mausoleo di Galla Plácida, 5th century chapel and mosaics, Ravenna, Italy
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  • Candles at Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
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Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
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  • Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
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Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
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  • Interior and ikonstas of Sveto Vaznesenje Serbian Orthodox Church built of stone in the late 17th century.<br />
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Mokra Gora is one village but three mountains, one village but two churches-one in Krsanj, another in the centre of Mokra Gora.The first had been burnt down three times by the Turke and people of Mokra Gora persistently erected it from the ashes.According to oral tradition the church of Sveto Vaznesenje had been built at the end of 17th century, before the great migration of the Serbs, on a very hidden spot near the river Beli Rzav, surrounded by very high rocks on both sides. After the three burnings of the church in Krsanj, people of this village built a stone church that still esist and there is a valuable iconostasis from<br />
the year 1849 with the icons painted in the same year. It's the icon of Jesus Christ, the big archpriest on the throne and the icon of Mother of God with Christ on the throne. People of Mokra Gora had been trying to build a church in Mokra Gora since 1876.<br />
It is reported that the icone of Holly Mother of God had been brought from Krsanje to Mokra Gora three times, but all over again it returned by itself to Krsanje to the site of a fire, and not until 1945 Mokrogorci built the church and erected the paris home.
    angier-0909-mokra_gora-11588.JPG
  • Parishioners venerate the cross at the end of liturgy service, Church of the Ascension of Jesus Christ at the Monastery Mileseva, Serbia originally built in the 13th century. Reverend Hieromonk Leontije, monastery priest
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  • Interior 180 degree view with fisheye lens of the Church of the Ascension of Jesus Christ at the Monastery Mileševa, Serbia originally built in the 13th century.
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  • Flower enshrined icon of the cross at the iconostasis during the Exaltation (Elevation) of the Holy Cross service, inside the Church of the Ascension of Jesus Christ at the Monastery Mileševa, Serbia originally built in the 13th century.
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  • Veneration of the Holy Cross icon during the Exaltation (Elevation) of the Holy Cross service, inside the Church of the Ascension of Jesus Christ at the Monastery Mileševa, Serbia originally built in the 13th century.
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  • The Exaltation (Elevation) of the Holy Cross service, inside the Church of the Ascension of Jesus Christ at the Monastery Mileseva, Serbia originally built in the 13th century.
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  • Iconography inside the church at the Monastery Mileševa, Serbia originally built in the 13th century.
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  • Church at the Monastery Mileševa, Serbia originally built in the 13th century.
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  • Serbo-Byzantine iconography and frescoe of an angel at the altar, Church at the Monastery Mileseva, Serbia originally built in the 13th century.
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  • Details within the walls at the Monastery Mileševa, Serbia originally built in the 13th century.
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