Sopoćani monastery
Sign in to saveThe Sopoćani Monastery (, ), an endowment of King Stefan Uroš I of Serbia, was built from 1259 to 1270, near the source of the Raška River in the region of Ras, the centre of the Serbian medieval state. It is a designated World Heritage Site, added in 1979 with Stari Ras. The monastery is located west of the town of Novi Pazar.
Key facts
- Church.name
- Sopoćani Monastery
- Church.image
- Сопоћани,_понос_Немањића.jpg
- Church.dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Church.archdiocese
- Eparchy of Raška and Prizren
- Church.country
- Serbia
- Church.functional status
- Public access
- Church.founder
- King Stefan Uroš I
- Church.location
- In Novi Pazar, Serbia, near the source of the Raška River in the region of Ras, the centre of the Serbian medieval state.
- Church.imagesize
- 330px
- Church.caption
- Overview of the Sopoćani
- Church.denomination
- Serbian Orthodox
- Church.years built
- 1259
- Church.style
- Raška schoolByzantine
- Monastery.established
- 1259–1270
- Monastery.disestablished
- 1689
- Monastery.reestablished
- 1926
- Monastery.public_access
- Yes
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The Sopoćani Monastery (, ), an endowment of King Stefan Uroš I of Serbia, was built from 1259 to 1270, near the source of the Raška River in the region of Ras, the centre of the Serbian medieval state. It is a designated World Heritage Site, added in 1979 with Stari Ras. The monastery is located west of the town of Novi Pazar.
==History== thumb|150px|left|Detail of the fresco Dormition of the Mother of God from Sopoćani c. 1265 (See also:Palaiologian Renaissance) In the 1160s, the Great Župan Stefan Nemanja consolidated his power on the throne in Raška. Although Nemanja's sons received the title of king and established the church as independent by making it autocephalous, as well as developing the economic system and coined money, the work of Stefan Nemanja remained a great model and an example to be emulated by the younger generations. Sopoćani was an endowment of the Serbian King Stefan Uroš I, son to Stefan the First-Crowned and Nemanja's grandson. It was built in 1260 by King Uroš I Nemanjić as a church which would serve as his burial place, and was extended and renovated in the mid-14th century by his great-grandson Dušan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sopoćani monastery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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