| The monastery was built in the XIV century, and the records of it exist since the XVI century. It has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. The church is designed in the Morava school's style: the base is three-leafed with annex and with two external six-sided domes. The old iconostasis was replaced in 1862 with a new, carved one, financed by Knez Mihailo Obrenović. The iconostasis was repaired at the beginning of the XX century, and then the new icons made by the monk and painter Rafailo Momčilović have replaced the old ones.
The monastery has a valuable collection of many precious item, like an important collection of XVII to XIX-century books. There are the family crypts of Jevrem Obrenović and general Milivoje Blaznavac inside the monastery, while outside is the tombstone of the Serbian duke and insurrectionist Vasa Čarapić. In the yard, there are graves of Naum Ičko, Patriarch Dimitrije, Sebastijan Roš and other famous persons. |