Monastery of the Holy Archangels

Local nameМанастир Светих Архангела
LocationPrizren, Kosovo

The Monastery of the Holy Archangels is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Prizren, Kosovo. The monastery was founded by the Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan between 1343 and 1352 on the site of an earlier church, part of the Višegrad fortress complex. It was the burial church for Emperor Dušan, and represented the culmination of the Serbian ecclesiastical architectural style, that led to the birth of the Morava school style.

The complex, which ranges over 6,500 m², includes two churches, the main one is dedicated to the Holy Archangels, and the second one is dedicated to St. Nicholas, both built in the Rascian architectural style. The monastery was looted and destroyed after the Ottomans arrived in 1455, and in 1615 it was razed to the ground and its material was used for the construction of the Sinan Pasha Mosque, Prizren.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery_of_the_Holy_Archangels

Phone +381648256607

Coordinates 42°12'2.085" N 20°45'48.652" E

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