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Gračanica monastery
Sign in to savecultural heritage monument of Kosovo
Key facts
- Other names
- Holy Virgin's temple of Gračanica
- Order
- Serbian Orthodox
- Dedicated to
- Holy Virgin
- Diocese
- Eparchy of Raška and Prizren
- Founder
- King Stefan Milutin
- Important associated figures
- Stefan Milutin , Queen Simonida , Patriarch Makarije Sokolović
- Style
- Serbo-Byzantine style
- Location
- Gračanica , Kosovo
- Public access
- yes
- Type
- Cultural
- Criteria
- ii, iii, iv
- Designated
- 2004 (28th session )
- Part of
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Reference no
- 724-004bis
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Endangered
- 2006–...
- Official name
- Manastir Gračanica
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Part of
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Religion
- Serbian Orthodox Church
- Country
- Serbia
- Located in
- Gračanica
- Founded by
- Stefan Milutin
- Dedicated to
- Theotokos
- Official website
- www.manastirgracanica.rs
- Image
- Манастир Грачаница 2.jpg
- Significant event
- list of World Heritage in Danger
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- Commons category
- Gračanica Monastery
- architectural style
- Serbo-Byzantine architecture
- native label
- Манастир Грачаница
- diocese
- Eparchy of Raška and Prizren
- inception
- 1315-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Gračanica Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Грачаница, romanized: Manastir Gračanica; Albanian: Manastiri i Graçanicës) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Kosovo. It was built by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin in 1321. The monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990 and in 2006 it was placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List under the name of Medieval Monuments in Kosovo as an extension of the Visoki Dečani site, which was overall placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
The Gračanica Monastery is one of King Milutin's last monumental endowments. The monastery is located in Gračanica, a Serbian enclave in the close vicinity of Lipjan, the old residence of bishops of Lipljan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gračanica monastery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.