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{{Short description|Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery in Kosovo}}
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The '''Gračanica Monastery''' ({{langx|sr|Манастир Грачаница|Manastir Gračanica}}; {{langx|sq|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 [[Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)|Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance]] in 1990, and on 13 July 2006<ref>{{Cite web |title=Medieval Monuments in Kosovo |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/724/ |access-date=26 March 2021 |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |language=en}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Heritage Committee puts Medieval Monuments in Kosovo on Danger List and extends site in Andorra, ending this year's inscriptions |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/268/ |access-date=26 March 2021 |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |language=en}}</ref>


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The Gračanica Monastery is one of King Milutin's last monumental endowments. The monastery is located in [[Gračanica, Kosovo|Gračanica]], a Serbian enclave in the close vicinity of [[Lipjan]], the old residence of [[Eparchy of Lipljan|bishops of Lipljan]].
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The '''Gračanica Monastery''' ({{lang-sr|Манастир Грачаница|Manastir Gračanica}}, {{IPA-sh|ɡratʃǎnitsa|pron}}; {{lang-sq|Manastiri i Graçanicës}}) is a [[Serbian Orthodox]] [[monastery]] located in [[Kosovo]]. It was built by the Serbian king [[Stefan Milutin]] in 1321 on the ruins of a 6th-century basilica. The monastery was declared a [[Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)|Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance]] in 1990, and on 13 July 2006<ref>{{Cite web|last=Centre|first=UNESCO World Heritage|title=Medieval Monuments in Kosovo|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/724/|access-date=2021-03-26|website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre|language=en}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Centre|first=UNESCO World Heritage|title=World Heritage Committee puts Medieval Monuments in Kosovo on Danger List and extends site in Andorra, ending this year’s inscriptions|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/268/|access-date=2021-03-26|website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre|language=en}}</ref>

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The Gračanica Monastery is one of King Milutin's last monumental endowments. The monastery is located in [[Gračanica, Kosovo|Gračanica]], a Serbian enclave in the close vicinity of [[Lipljan]], the old residence of [[Eparchy of Lipljan|bishops of Lipljan]].


==Geography==
==Geography==
The monastery is located in [[Gračanica, Kosovo|Gračanica]], a Serbian enclave near Lipljan, some {{convert|5|km|mi|abbr=on}} from [[Pristina]]. It is situated on the [[Kosovo field (region)|Kosovo field]], on the left riverbank of [[Gračanka]], a right tributary of the [[Sitnica river]]. The name is derived from Slavic ''Gradac'', a toponym of fortified cities.<ref name="LOMA2013">{{cite book|author=ALEKSANDAR LOMA|title=LA TOPONYMIE DE LA CHARTE DE FONDATION DE BANJSKA: Vers la conception d’un dictionnaire des noms de lieux de la Serbie medievale et une meilleure connaissance des structures onomastiques du slave commun|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuy2BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA133|year=2013|publisher=Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti|isbn=978-86-7025-621-7|pages=133, 199, 260}}</ref>
The monastery is located in [[Gračanica, Kosovo|Gračanica]], a Serbian enclave near [[Lipjan]], some {{convert|5|km|mi|abbr=on}} from [[Pristina]]. It is situated on the [[Kosovo field (region)|Kosovo field]], on the left riverbank of [[Gračanka]], a right tributary of the [[Sitnica river]]. The name is derived from Slavic ''Gradac'', a toponym of fortified cities.<ref name="LOMA20132">{{cite book |author=ALEKSANDAR LOMA |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuy2BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 |title=LA TOPONYMIE DE LA CHARTE DE FONDATION DE BANJSKA: Vers la conception d'un dictionnaire des noms de lieux de la Serbie medievale et une meilleure connaissance des structures onomastiques du slave commun |publisher=Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti |year=2013 |isbn=978-86-7025-621-7 |pages=133, 199, 260}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
[[File:Milutin Gracanica ktitor detalj.jpg|left|thumb|''ktetor'' (founder) fresco with [[Stefan Milutin]] holding a model of the church, ca. 1321.]]
[[File:Milutin_Gracanica_ktitor_detalj.jpg|left|thumb|''ktetor'' (founder) fresco with [[Stefan Milutin]] holding a model of the church, ca. 1321.]]
Gračanica was constructed on the ruins of an older 13th-century church of the [[Theotokos|Holy Virgin]], which itself was built on the ruins of a 6th-century early Christian three-naved basilica. It was located in the centre of the [[Eparchy of Lipljan]]. Stefan Milutin's ''ktetor'' comment are written on the southern wall, including "I have seen the ruins and the decay of the Holy Virgin's temple of Gračanica, the bishopric of Lipljan, so I have built it from the ground and painted and decorated it both from inside and outside". In 1346, when the Serbian Archbishopric was raised to the rank of [[Serbian Patriarchate of Peć|Patriarchate]], the bishop of Lipljan was granted the honorary title of metropolitan bishop, and since that time they were called metropolitans of Lipljan or Gračanica.
Gračanica was constructed on the ruins of an older 13th-century church of the [[Theotokos|Holy Virgin]]. It was located in the centre of the [[Eparchy of Lipljan]]. Stefan Milutin's ''ktetor'' comment are written on the southern wall, including "I have seen the ruins and the decay of the Holy Virgin's temple of Gračanica, the bishopric of Lipljan, so I have built it from the ground and painted and decorated it both from inside and outside".<ref name="Mileusnić">{{cite book |last1=Mileusnić |first1=Slobodan |title=Medieval monasteries of Serbia |date=1998 |publisher=Pravoslavna reč |isbn=9788676393701 |pages=54–56 |edition=Fourth |chapter=Gračanica in Kosovo}}</ref> In 1346, when the Serbian Archbishopric was raised to the rank of [[Serbian Patriarchate of Peć|Patriarchate]], the bishop of Lipljan was granted the honorary title of metropolitan bishop, and since that time they were called metropolitans of Lipljan or Gračanica.


Of the former monastic compound, only the church has survived. The [[narthex]] and the tower were added a few decades later, in order to protect the frescoes on the west facade. The narthex was heavily damaged by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] several times between 1379–1383, when the tower was burned and a fire devoured a rich collection of manuscripts and other precious objects. The narthex was reconstructed in 1383. Again, Gračanica suffered damages at the time of the [[Battle of Kosovo]] (1389).
Of the former monastic compound, only the church has survived.<ref name="Temerinski">{{cite web |last1=Temerinski |first1=Aleksandra Davidov |title=Gračanica Monastery |url=https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu/item/gracanica-monastery.html |website=mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu}}</ref> The [[narthex]] and the tower were added a few decades later, in order to protect the frescoes on the west facade. The narthex was heavily damaged by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] several times between 1379–1383, when the tower was burned and a fire devoured a rich collection of manuscripts and other precious objects.<ref name="Mileusnić" /> The narthex was reconstructed in 1383. Again, Gračanica suffered damages at the time of the [[Battle of Kosovo]] (1389).


During Ottoman rule Gračanica became an important cultural center. In the time of Metropolitan Nikanor (1528–1555) several icons were painted on the [[altarpiece]]. Also, because of the printing press, Nikanor obtained numerous service books and objects for monastic use. The royal doors were commissioned in 1564 by Metropolitan Dionisije, whose death is represented on a fresco in the narthex. Major restoration took place through efforts of Patriarch [[Makarije Sokolović]]. All the openings on the external narthex were walled up and new frescoes were completed in 1570. Thanks to Patriarch [[Pajsije]], the church got its leaden roofing, and in 1620 the large cross with [[crucifix]] was made on the iconostasis. The monastery was exposed to new damages toward the end of the 17th century, in the [[Great Turkish War]], after the [[Battle of Vienna|second siege of Vienna]] - in which the [[Serbs]] took part on the Christian side. Turks removed the leaden cross and pulled out the floor tiles, together with the treasure hidden in the church by [[Arsenije III Čarnojević|Patriarch Arsenije III]].
During Ottoman rule, Gračanica became an important cultural center. In the time of Metropolitan Nikanor (1528–1555) several icons were painted on the [[altarpiece]].<ref name="Mileusnić" /> Also, because of the printing press, Nikanor obtained numerous service books and objects for monastic use. The royal doors were commissioned in 1564 by Metropolitan Dionisije, whose death is represented on a fresco in the narthex.<ref name="Mileusnić" /> Major restoration took place through efforts of Patriarch [[Makarije Sokolović]]. All the openings on the external narthex were walled up and new frescoes were completed in 1570. Thanks to Patriarch [[Pajsije]], the church got its leaden roofing, and in 1620 the large cross with [[crucifix]] was made on the iconostasis.<ref name="Mileusnić" /> The monastery was exposed to new damages toward the end of the 17th century, in the [[Great Turkish War]], after the [[Battle of Vienna|second siege of Vienna]] - in which the [[Serbs]] took part on the Christian side. Turks removed the leaden cross and pulled out the floor tiles, together with the treasure hidden in the church by [[Arsenije III Čarnojević|Patriarch Arsenije III]].<ref name="Mileusnić" />


After the [[World War II]] it was renewed by [[nun]]s and has been serving as a [[convent]] since. Today there are 24 sisters in the monastery who are active in [[icon painting]], [[agriculture]], [[sewing]] and other monastic obediences.
After the [[World War II]] it was renewed by [[nun]]s and has been serving as a [[convent]] since. Today there are 24 sisters in the monastery who are active in [[icon painting]], [[agriculture]], [[sewing]] and other monastic obediences.
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In 1999 the monastery was bombed twice [[NATO bombing of Yugoslavia|by NATO airplanes]].<ref>Adam Jones (ed.), ''Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity'', 2004.</ref> After the [[Kosovo War]] (1998–99), [[Eparchy of Raška and Prizren|Bishop of Raška and Prizren]] [[Artemije Radosavljević]] transferred his official seat to this monastery from Prizren and since then the monastery has become not only the most important spiritual but also the national and political center of the [[Serbs in Kosovo|Serb community in Kosovo]].
In 1999 the monastery was bombed twice [[NATO bombing of Yugoslavia|by NATO airplanes]].<ref>Adam Jones (ed.), ''Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity'', 2004.</ref> After the [[Kosovo War]] (1998–99), [[Eparchy of Raška and Prizren|Bishop of Raška and Prizren]] [[Artemije Radosavljević]] transferred his official seat to this monastery from Prizren and since then the monastery has become not only the most important spiritual but also the national and political center of the [[Serbs in Kosovo|Serb community in Kosovo]].


The monastery was declared a [[Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)|Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance]] in 1990, and on 13 July 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]].<ref name=Serbia_list>{{CHS-SANU|Link=385|Name=МАНАСТИР ГРАЧАНИЦА}}</ref><ref name=UNESCO_list>{{cite web|last=UNESCO|title=List of World Heritage in Danger|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/danger/|access-date=24 February 2013|year=2006}}</ref>
The monastery was declared a [[Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)|Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance]] in 1990, and on 13 July 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]].<ref name="Serbia_list2">{{CHS-SANU|Link=385|Name=МАНАСТИР ГРАЧАНИЦА}}</ref><ref name="UNESCO_list2">{{cite web |last=UNESCO |year=2006 |title=List of World Heritage in Danger |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/danger/ |access-date=24 February 2013}}</ref>


==Architecture==
==Architecture==
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Gračanica represents the culmination of the [[Medieval Serbian art]] of building in the [[Serbo-Byzantine architecture|Serbo-Byzantine tradition]]. The church has the form of a double inscribed cross, one inside the other, the inner one providing for a vertical silhouette so as to raise the central dome upwards on a graded elaboration of masses. The [[dome]] rests on four free-standing [[Column|pillars]].<ref name="Mileusnić" /> Above the spaces between the cross-shafts, four smaller domes give a regular structure to the whole [[Coronation|crowning]] complex. Three three-sided [[apse]]s (the central one being the largest) put a mild distinction on the [[altar]] space externally.<ref name="Ćurčić">{{Cite book |last=Ćurčić |first=Slobodan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T77qAAAAMAAJ |title=Gračanica: King Milutin's Church and Its Place in Late Byzantine Architecture |page=110 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |year=1979 |isbn=9780271002187}}</ref> The [[diaconicon]] and the [[Prothesis (altar)|prothesis]] are separated by full walls. Between the [[nave]] and the [[narthex]] there are wide, heavy [[Column|pillars]] and the ''katolikon'' (conventual church) is on a level higher. The church was built in alternate courses of brick and stone. At the end of the 14th century an [[Narthex|exonarthex]] was added with double [[Arcade (architecture)|arcades]], but these were blinded in the 16th century.<ref name="Mileusnić" />

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Gračanica represents the culmination of the [[Medieval Serbian art]] of building in the [[Serbo-Byzantine architecture|Serbo-Byzantine tradition]]. The church has the form of a double inscribed cross, one inside the other, the inner one providing for a vertical silhouette so as to raise the central dome upwards on a graded elaboration of masses. The [[dome]] rests on four free-standing [[Column|pillars]]. Above the spaces between the cross-shafts, four smaller domes give a regular structure to the whole [[Coronation|crowning]] complex. Three three-sided [[apse]]s (the central one being the largest) put a mild distinction on the [[altar]] space externally. The [[diaconicon]] and the [[prosthesis]] are separated by full walls. Between the [[nave]] and the [[narthex]] there are wide, heavy [[Column|pillars]] and the ''katolikon'' (conventual church) is on a level higher. The church was built in alternate courses of brick and stone. At the end of the 14th century an [[narthex|exonarthex]] was added with double [[Arcade (architecture)|arcade]]s, but these were blinded in the 16th century.


==Art==
==Art==
[[File:Nadezda-Petrovic-kosovski-bozuri-Gracanica-1913..jpg|thumb|right|210px|''Gračanica'' painted [[Fauvism|fauvistically]] by [[Nadežda Petrović]] (1913).]]
[[File:Nadezda-Petrovic-kosovski-bozuri-Gracanica-1913..jpg|right|thumb|210x210px|''Gračanica'' painted [[Fauvism|fauvistically]] by [[Nadežda Petrović]] (1913).]]
[[File:Meister von Gracanica (II) 001.jpg|thumb|left|210px|[[Dormition of the Mother of God]], fresco from Gračanica, c. 1321. (See also:[[Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty|Palaiologian Renaissance]])]]
[[File:Meister_von_Gracanica_(II)_001.jpg|left|thumb|210x210px|[[Dormition of the Mother of God]], fresco from Gračanica, c. 1321. (See also [[Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty|Palaiologian Renaissance]])]]
In the church three kinds of [[painting]] can be discerned. The earliest is found in the [[nave]], whereas two later ones can be recognized in the [[narthex]]. The [[fresco]]es were painted in 1321–1322. The painting works have been well preserved. The compositions in the nave deal with the earthly life of [[Jesus]] and the [[ecclesiastical calendar]].
In the church three kinds of [[painting]] can be discerned. The earliest is found in the [[nave]], whereas two later ones can be recognized in the [[narthex]]. The [[fresco]]es were painted in 1321–1322. The painting works have been well preserved. The compositions in the nave deal with the earthly life of [[Jesus]] and the [[ecclesiastical calendar]].<ref name="Mileusnić" />


The focal paintings of Gračanica include the [[Liturgical year|Festival Cycle]], the [[Passion of Christ|Passion]] and the [[Miracles attributed to Jesus|miracle]]s of [[Christ]]. Inside the narthex, there are portraits of the founders: [[Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia|King Milutin]] and [[Queen Simonida]], [[Queen Hélène d'Anjou]] (king's mother) as a [[nun]] and King Milutin as a [[monk]]. Of particular importance is the [[Nemanjić dynasty]] genealogy, the first ever painted, which starts with [[Stefan Nemanja]] and ends with Milutin. Also in the narthex, there is an exhaustive illustration of the [[Last Judgment]]. The scenes from the life of [[St. Nicholas]] are in the north [[parecclesion]], while the walls of the south one display scenes from the [[Old Testament]] and the lives of [[Christ]] and the [[Mother of God]]. The master painters supposedly were [[Michael and Eutihije]] with their assistants.
The focal paintings of Gračanica include the [[Liturgical year|Festival Cycle]], the [[Passion of Christ|Passion]] and the [[Miracles attributed to Jesus|miracles]] of [[Christ]]. Inside the narthex, there are portraits of the founders: [[Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia|King Milutin]] and [[Queen Simonida]], [[Queen Hélène d'Anjou]] (king's mother) as a [[nun]] and King Milutin as a [[monk]]. Of particular importance is the [[Nemanjić dynasty]] genealogy, the first ever painted, which starts with [[Stefan Nemanja]] and ends with Milutin. Also in the narthex, there is an exhaustive illustration of the [[Last Judgment]]. The scenes from the life of [[St. Nicholas]] are in the north [[parecclesion]], while the walls of the south one display scenes from the [[Old Testament]] and the lives of [[Christ]] and the [[Mother of God]]. The master painters supposedly were [[Michael and Eutihije]] with their assistants.<ref name="Mileusnić" />


There are also considerable frescoes from 1570 in the exonarthex, commissioned by Patriarch [[Makarije Sokolović]]. There are some paintings in the narthex that date back to the late 14th and early 15th centuries, including the [[Baptism of Jesus]], parts of the Virgin's [[Acathistus|Acathistus Hymns]] and the [[Ecumenical Councils]]. Two subjects, however, dominate the narthex of Gračanica: the [[Doxology]] to the Holy Virgin and the procession of the Serbian archbishops from [[Saint Sava]] to Patriarch [[Makarije Sokolović]]. A historical composition of the death of the Metropolitan of Gračanica Dionisije covers the southeastern part of the narthex.
There are also considerable frescoes from 1570 in the exonarthex, commissioned by Patriarch [[Makarije Sokolović]]. There are some paintings in the narthex that date back to the late 14th and early 15th centuries, including the [[Baptism of Jesus]], parts of the Virgin's [[Acathistus|Acathistus Hymns]] and the [[Ecumenical Councils]]. Two subjects, however, dominate the narthex of Gračanica: the [[Doxology]] to the Holy Virgin and the procession of the Serbian archbishops from [[Saint Sava]] to Patriarch [[Makarije Sokolović]]. A historical composition of the death of the Metropolitan of Gračanica Dionisije covers the southeastern part of the narthex.<ref name="Mileusnić" />


The paintings of Gračanica rank highest among the achievements of Milutin's period, characterized by influences of the [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantine]] splendiferous and luxurious style called the ''[[Palaiologos|Paleologan]] Renaissance''. In terms of style, they are also related to the art of the other of Milutin's foundations.
The paintings of Gračanica rank highest among the achievements of Milutin's period, characterized by influences of the [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantine]] splendiferous and luxurious style called the ''[[Palaiologos|Paleologan]] Renaissance''. In terms of style, they are also related to the art of the other of Milutin's foundations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Art of Gracanica Monastery |url=http://www.kosovo.net/gracanica1.html |access-date=27 March 2021 |website=www.kosovo.net}}</ref>


== Gallery ==
== Gallery ==
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Monastery of Gračanica 1913.jpg|''"Gračanica"'', ''"Autochrome"'', Auguste Léon, 1913.
File:Monastery_of_Gračanica_1913.jpg|''"Gračanica"'', ''"Autochrome"'', Auguste Léon, 1913.
Image:Gračanica - Flickr - quinn.anya.jpg|Monastery building.
File:Gračanica_-_Flickr_-_quinn.anya.jpg|Monastery building.
Image:Interieri i Manastirit të Graçanicës.jpg|Interior
File:Interieri_i_Manastirit_të_Graçanicës.jpg|Interior
Image:Helen of Anjou and her son King Milutin, Gračanica.jpg|Queen Hélène d'Anjou as a nun and King Milutin as a monk, fresco from Gračanica.
File:Helen_of_Anjou_and_her_son_King_Milutin,_Gračanica.jpg|Queen Hélène d'Anjou as a nun and King Milutin as a monk, fresco from Gračanica.
Image:Simonida.jpg|Queen [[Simonida]] of Serbia, wife of King [[Stefan Milutin|Milutin]], fresco from Gračanica.
File:Simonida.jpg|Queen [[Simonida]] of Serbia, wife of King [[Stefan Milutin|Milutin]], fresco from Gračanica.
Image:Gracanica 02.jpg|[[Last Judgment]], narthex c. 1321
File:Gracanica_02.jpg|[[Last Judgment]], narthex c. 1321
Image:Праведни Авраам и прaведни (покајани) разбојник у рају, живопис у светој обитељи Грачаница, Србија.jpg|[[Abraham]] in paradise
File:Праведни_Авраам_и_прaведни_(покајани)_разбојник_у_рају,_живопис_у_светој_обитељи_Грачаница,_Србија.jpg|[[Abraham]] in paradise
</gallery>
</gallery>


==Legacy==
==Legacy==
The design of the [[Church of Saint Sava]] in [[Belgrade]] is based on the models of Gračanica and [[Hagia Sophia]]. In Chicago, the [[New Gračanica Monastery|New Gračanica]] church is a detailed replica of Gračanica, completed and consecrated in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Monastery |url=https://newgracanica.org/monastery/ |access-date=27 March 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New Gracanica-Midwestern America |url=https://serborth.org/newgracanica.html |access-date=27 March 2021 |website=serborth.org}}</ref> The Hercegovačka Gračanica Monastery ([[Serbian language|Serbian]]: Манастир Херцеговачка Грачаница, <small>[[Romanization of Serbian|romanized]]:</small> ''Manastir Hercegovačka Gračanica''), completed in the year 2000, is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in [[Trebinje]], in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], and is largely a copy of the Gračanica monastery in Kosovo.<ref>{{Cite web |last=TheSrpskaTimes |date=8 January 2020 |title=The Monastery ''Hercegovačka Gračanica'': A pearl of spirituality and culture (VIDEO) {{!}} The Srpska Times |url=https://thesrpskatimes.com/15414-2/ |access-date=27 March 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hercegovačka Gračanica {{!}} Sightseeing {{!}} Trebinje |url=https://www.inyourpocket.com/trebinje/hercegovacka-gracanica_166623v |access-date=27 March 2021 |website=www.inyourpocket.com |language=en}}</ref>
The design of the [[Church of Saint Sava]] in [[Belgrade]] is based on the models of Gračanica and [[Hagia Sophia]]. In Chicago, the [[New Gračanica Monastery|New Gračanica]] church is a detailed replica of Gračanica, completed and consecrated in 1984.


There are poems dedicated to Gračanica by Zorka Stojanović and Desanka Maksimović.
There are poems dedicated to Gračanica by Zorka Stojanović and Desanka Maksimović.


==In popular culture ==
==In popular culture ==

* ''Gračanica ... The Golden Apple'', a [[documentary film]] of series "Witnesses of Time" produced by the broadcasting service [[Radio Television of Serbia|RTB]] in 1989 was created by PhD Branislav Todic and Petar Savkovic, directed by Milan Knezevic, music was composed by [[Zoran Hristić]].<ref>{{YouTube|a0ngJsn9R_E|Gračanica ... The Golden Apple}} Official channel of [[Radio Television of Serbia|RTS]]</ref>
* ''Gračanica ... The Golden Apple'', a [[documentary film]] of series "Witnesses of Time" produced by the broadcasting service [[Radio Television of Serbia|RTB]] in 1989 was created by PhD Branislav Todic and Petar Savkovic, directed by Milan Knezevic, music was composed by [[Zoran Hristić]].<ref>{{YouTube|a0ngJsn9R_E|Gračanica ... The Golden Apple}} Official channel of [[Radio Television of Serbia|RTS]]</ref>
* ''[[Kosovo: A Moment in Civilization]]''
* ''[[Kosovo: A Moment in Civilization]]''


==Annotations==
==See also==
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==See also==
* [[Architecture of Serbia]]
* [[Architecture of Serbia]]
* [[Cultural monuments of the Kosovo district]]


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{reflist}}


==Further reading==
==Further reading==
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* {{Cite book|last=Ćirković|first=Sima|author-link=Sima Ćirković|year=2004|title=The Serbs|location=Malden|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wc-DWRzoeIC}}
* {{Cite book |last=Ćirković |first=Sima |author-link=Sima Ćirković |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wc-DWRzoeIC |title=The Serbs |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=9781405142915 |location=Malden}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Ивановић|first=Радомир|title=Земљишни поседи грачаничког властелинства (Land Property of the Monastery Gračanica in Middle Ages)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xul6CgAAQBAJ|journal=Историјски часопис|issue=11: 1960|year=1961|pages=253–264}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Ивановић |first=Радомир |year=1961 |title=Земљишни поседи грачаничког властелинства (Land Property of the Monastery Gračanica in Middle Ages) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xul6CgAAQBAJ |journal=Историјски часопис |issue=11: 1960 |pages=253–264}}
*{{cite book|last=Bošković|first=Đ.|title=Gračanica|location=Beograd|publisher=Društvo prijatelja starina}}
*{{cite book |last=Bošković |first=Đ. |title=Gračanica |publisher=Društvo prijatelja starina |location=Beograd}}
* {{Cite book|last=Ćurčić|first=Slobodan|title=Gračanica: King Milutin's Church and Its Place in Late Byzantine Architecture|year=1979|publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T77qAAAAMAAJ}}
*{{cite journal |last=Ćurčić |first=Slobodan |year=2007 |title=Gračanica and the cult of the Saintly Prince Lazar |journal=Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta |location=Belgrade |publisher=SANU |volume=44 |issue=44 |pages=465–472 |doi=10.2298/ZRVI0744465C |doi-access=free}}
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*{{cite journal |last=Đorđević |first=A. |year=2009 |title=Gračanica kao inspiracija srpskih pesnika novijeg doba - poezija i kultura |url=http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2009/0353-90080927087D.pdf |journal=Baština |issue=27 |pages=87–100}}
*{{cite journal|last=Ćurčić|first=Slobodan|year=2007|title=Gračanica and the cult of the Saintly Prince Lazar|journal=Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta|volume=44|issue=44|location=Belgrade|publisher=SANU|pp=465–472|doi=10.2298/ZRVI0744465C|doi-access=free}}
*{{cite journal|last=Đorđević|first=A.|year=2009|title=Gračanica kao inspiracija srpskih pesnika novijeg doba - poezija i kultura|journal=Baština|issue=27|pages=87–100|url=http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2009/0353-90080927087D.pdf}}
*{{cite journal |last=Đorđević |first=A. |year=2009 |title=Gračanica u starim zapisima i natpisima i narodnoj poeziji |url=http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2009/0353-90080926115D.pdf |journal=Baština |issue=26 |pages=115–125}}
*{{cite book |last=Gluščević |first=Z. |title=Gračaničko povesmo od zlata, Strašni sud |publisher=Jedinstvo |year=1989 |editor=Popović Ratko |location=Priština}}
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*{{cite journal|last=Đorđević|first=A.|year=2009|title=Gračanica u starim zapisima i natpisima i narodnoj poeziji|journal=Baština|issue=26|pages=115–125|url=http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2009/0353-90080926115D.pdf}}
*{{cite book|last=Gluščević|first=Z.|year=1989|title=Gračaničko povesmo od zlata|editor=Popović Ratko|work=Strašni sud|location=Priština|publisher=Jedinstvo}}
*{{cite book |last=Milošević |first=D. |title=Gračanica |publisher=Turistička štampa |year=1968 |location=Beograd}}
*{{cite book|last=Milošević|first=D.|year=1968|title=Gračanica|location=Beograd|publisher=Turistička štampa}}
*{{cite book |last=Popović |first=J. |title=Gračanica |publisher=Mlada Srbija |year=1927 |location=Beograd}}
*{{cite book|last=Popović|first=J.|year=1927|title=Gračanica|location=Beograd|publisher=Mlada Srbija}}
*{{cite book |last=Todić |first=B. |title=Gračanica |publisher=Muzej u Prištini |year=1999a |location=Priština |issue=2}}
*{{cite book|last=Todić|first=B.|year=1999a|title=Gračanica|issue=2|location=Priština|publisher=Muzej u Prištini}}
*{{cite book |last=Todić |first=B. |title=Gračanica - slikarstvo |publisher=Muzej u Prištini |year=1999b |location=Priština}}
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* {{Cite book |last=Todić |first=Branislav |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NqALAQAAMAAJ |title=Serbian Medieval Painting: The Age of King Milutin |publisher=Draganić |year=1999 |isbn=9788644102717 |location=Belgrade}}
*{{cite book|last=Todić|first=B.|year=1999b|title=Gračanica - slikarstvo|location=Priština|publisher=Muzej u Prištini}}
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* {{Cite book |last1=Ferrari |first1=Silvio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhUGDAAAQBAJ |title=Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage: Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean |last2=Benzo |first2=Andrea |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |isbn=9781317175032 |location=London & New York}}
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* {{Cite book|last=Todić|first=Branislav|title=Serbian Medieval Painting: The Age of King Milutin|year=1999|location=Belgrade|publisher=Draganić|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NqALAQAAMAAJ}}
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* {{Cite book|last1=Ferrari|first1=Silvio|last2=Benzo|first2=Andrea|title=Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage: Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhUGDAAAQBAJ|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|location=London & New York|isbn=9781317175032}}
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://eparhija-prizren.com Official web presentation of Raska and Prizren Diocese]
* [http://eparhija-prizren.com/ Official web presentation of Raska and Prizren Diocese]
*[https://www.blagofund.org/Archives/Gracanica/ Gračanica Monastery- virtual walk and photo collection of the Blago Fund]
* [https://www.blagofund.org/Archives/Gracanica/ Gračanica Monastery- virtual walk and photo collection of the Blago Fund]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070127093805/http://www.suc.org/culture/history/Serb_History/Monasteries/Gracanica/index.html Serbian Unity Congress]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070127093805/http://www.suc.org/culture/history/Serb_History/Monasteries/Gracanica/index.html Serbian Unity Congress]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br7MiZ3N3Vk Narrow is the Gate], a 65 minutes documentary film produced by [[Kersti Uibo]] in 2002, shows the life of "the few Serbs who remain in Kosovo" through the eyes of a 86 years old nun, "who with a joke and a tear, tries to balance her hostility to Albaninas with her religious calling to love them."


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Gračanica Monastery
Манастир Грачаница (Serbian)
Manastir Gračanica (Serbian)
Manastiri i Graçanicës (Albanian)
View of the Gračanica Monastery
Monastery information
Other namesHoly Virgin's temple of Gračanica
OrderSerbian Orthodox
Established1321
Dedicated toHoly Virgin
DioceseEparchy of Raška and Prizren
People
Founder(s)King Stefan Milutin
Important associated figuresStefan Milutin, Queen Simonida, Patriarch Makarije Sokolović
Architecture
StyleSerbo-Byzantine style
Site
LocationGračanica, Kosovo
Public accessyes
TypeCultural
Criteriaii, iii, iv
Designated2004 (28th session)
Part ofMedieval Monuments in Kosovo
Reference no.724-004bis
RegionEurope and North America
Extensions2006
Endangered2006–...
Official nameManastir Gračanica
TypeMonument of Culture of Exceptional Importance
Designated25 October 1947
Reference no.СК 1367[1]

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 on 13 July 2006[2] 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.[3]

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.

Geography

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The monastery is located in Gračanica, a Serbian enclave near Lipjan, some 5 km (3.1 mi) from Pristina. It is situated on the Kosovo field, on the left riverbank of Gračanka, a right tributary of the Sitnica river. The name is derived from Slavic Gradac, a toponym of fortified cities.[4]

History

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ktetor (founder) fresco with Stefan Milutin holding a model of the church, ca. 1321.

Gračanica was constructed on the ruins of an older 13th-century church of the Holy Virgin. It was located in the centre of the Eparchy of Lipljan. Stefan Milutin's ktetor comment are written on the southern wall, including "I have seen the ruins and the decay of the Holy Virgin's temple of Gračanica, the bishopric of Lipljan, so I have built it from the ground and painted and decorated it both from inside and outside".[5] In 1346, when the Serbian Archbishopric was raised to the rank of Patriarchate, the bishop of Lipljan was granted the honorary title of metropolitan bishop, and since that time they were called metropolitans of Lipljan or Gračanica.

Of the former monastic compound, only the church has survived.[6] The narthex and the tower were added a few decades later, in order to protect the frescoes on the west facade. The narthex was heavily damaged by the Ottomans several times between 1379–1383, when the tower was burned and a fire devoured a rich collection of manuscripts and other precious objects.[5] The narthex was reconstructed in 1383. Again, Gračanica suffered damages at the time of the Battle of Kosovo (1389).

During Ottoman rule, Gračanica became an important cultural center. In the time of Metropolitan Nikanor (1528–1555) several icons were painted on the altarpiece.[5] Also, because of the printing press, Nikanor obtained numerous service books and objects for monastic use. The royal doors were commissioned in 1564 by Metropolitan Dionisije, whose death is represented on a fresco in the narthex.[5] Major restoration took place through efforts of Patriarch Makarije Sokolović. All the openings on the external narthex were walled up and new frescoes were completed in 1570. Thanks to Patriarch Pajsije, the church got its leaden roofing, and in 1620 the large cross with crucifix was made on the iconostasis.[5] The monastery was exposed to new damages toward the end of the 17th century, in the Great Turkish War, after the second siege of Vienna - in which the Serbs took part on the Christian side. Turks removed the leaden cross and pulled out the floor tiles, together with the treasure hidden in the church by Patriarch Arsenije III.[5]

After the World War II it was renewed by nuns and has been serving as a convent since. Today there are 24 sisters in the monastery who are active in icon painting, agriculture, sewing and other monastic obediences.

In 1999 the monastery was bombed twice by NATO airplanes.[7] After the Kosovo War (1998–99), Bishop of Raška and Prizren Artemije Radosavljević transferred his official seat to this monastery from Prizren and since then the monastery has become not only the most important spiritual but also the national and political center of the Serb community in Kosovo.

The monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and on 13 July 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.[1][8]

Architecture

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Gračanica represents the culmination of the Medieval Serbian art of building in the Serbo-Byzantine tradition. The church has the form of a double inscribed cross, one inside the other, the inner one providing for a vertical silhouette so as to raise the central dome upwards on a graded elaboration of masses. The dome rests on four free-standing pillars.[5] Above the spaces between the cross-shafts, four smaller domes give a regular structure to the whole crowning complex. Three three-sided apses (the central one being the largest) put a mild distinction on the altar space externally.[9] The diaconicon and the prothesis are separated by full walls. Between the nave and the narthex there are wide, heavy pillars and the katolikon (conventual church) is on a level higher. The church was built in alternate courses of brick and stone. At the end of the 14th century an exonarthex was added with double arcades, but these were blinded in the 16th century.[5]

Art

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Gračanica painted fauvistically by Nadežda Petrović (1913).
Dormition of the Mother of God, fresco from Gračanica, c. 1321. (See also Palaiologian Renaissance)

In the church three kinds of painting can be discerned. The earliest is found in the nave, whereas two later ones can be recognized in the narthex. The frescoes were painted in 1321–1322. The painting works have been well preserved. The compositions in the nave deal with the earthly life of Jesus and the ecclesiastical calendar.[5]

The focal paintings of Gračanica include the Festival Cycle, the Passion and the miracles of Christ. Inside the narthex, there are portraits of the founders: King Milutin and Queen Simonida, Queen Hélène d'Anjou (king's mother) as a nun and King Milutin as a monk. Of particular importance is the Nemanjić dynasty genealogy, the first ever painted, which starts with Stefan Nemanja and ends with Milutin. Also in the narthex, there is an exhaustive illustration of the Last Judgment. The scenes from the life of St. Nicholas are in the north parecclesion, while the walls of the south one display scenes from the Old Testament and the lives of Christ and the Mother of God. The master painters supposedly were Michael and Eutihije with their assistants.[5]

There are also considerable frescoes from 1570 in the exonarthex, commissioned by Patriarch Makarije Sokolović. There are some paintings in the narthex that date back to the late 14th and early 15th centuries, including the Baptism of Jesus, parts of the Virgin's Acathistus Hymns and the Ecumenical Councils. Two subjects, however, dominate the narthex of Gračanica: the Doxology to the Holy Virgin and the procession of the Serbian archbishops from Saint Sava to Patriarch Makarije Sokolović. A historical composition of the death of the Metropolitan of Gračanica Dionisije covers the southeastern part of the narthex.[5]

The paintings of Gračanica rank highest among the achievements of Milutin's period, characterized by influences of the Byzantine splendiferous and luxurious style called the Paleologan Renaissance. In terms of style, they are also related to the art of the other of Milutin's foundations.[10]

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  • "Gračanica", "Autochrome", Auguste Léon, 1913.
    "Gračanica", "Autochrome", Auguste Léon, 1913.
  • Monastery building.
    Monastery building.
  • Interior
    Interior
  • Queen Hélène d'Anjou as a nun and King Milutin as a monk, fresco from Gračanica.
    Queen Hélène d'Anjou as a nun and King Milutin as a monk, fresco from Gračanica.
  • Queen Simonida of Serbia, wife of King Milutin, fresco from Gračanica.
    Queen Simonida of Serbia, wife of King Milutin, fresco from Gračanica.
  • Last Judgment, narthex c. 1321
    Last Judgment, narthex c. 1321
  • Abraham in paradise
    Abraham in paradise

Legacy

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The design of the Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade is based on the models of Gračanica and Hagia Sophia. In Chicago, the New Gračanica church is a detailed replica of Gračanica, completed and consecrated in 1984.[11][12] The Hercegovačka Gračanica Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Херцеговачка Грачаница, romanized: Manastir Hercegovačka Gračanica), completed in the year 2000, is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Trebinje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is largely a copy of the Gračanica monastery in Kosovo.[13][14]

There are poems dedicated to Gračanica by Zorka Stojanović and Desanka Maksimović.

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Monuments of Culture in Serbia: "МАНАСТИР ГРАЧАНИЦА" (SANU) (in Serbian and English)
  2. ^ "Medieval Monuments in Kosovo". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  3. ^ "World Heritage Committee puts Medieval Monuments in Kosovo on Danger List and extends site in Andorra, ending this year's inscriptions". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  4. ^ ALEKSANDAR LOMA (2013). LA TOPONYMIE DE LA CHARTE DE FONDATION DE BANJSKA: Vers la conception d'un dictionnaire des noms de lieux de la Serbie medievale et une meilleure connaissance des structures onomastiques du slave commun. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. pp. 133, 199, 260. ISBN 978-86-7025-621-7.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Mileusnić, Slobodan (1998). "Gračanica in Kosovo". Medieval monasteries of Serbia (Fourth ed.). Pravoslavna reč. pp. 54–56. ISBN 9788676393701.
  6. ^ Temerinski, Aleksandra Davidov. "Gračanica Monastery". mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu.
  7. ^ Adam Jones (ed.), Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity, 2004.
  8. ^ UNESCO (2006). "List of World Heritage in Danger". Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  9. ^ Ćurčić, Slobodan (1979). Gračanica: King Milutin's Church and Its Place in Late Byzantine Architecture. Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 110. ISBN 9780271002187.
  10. ^ "The Art of Gracanica Monastery". www.kosovo.net. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Monastery". Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  12. ^ "New Gracanica-Midwestern America". serborth.org. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  13. ^ TheSrpskaTimes (8 January 2020). "The Monastery Hercegovačka Gračanica: A pearl of spirituality and culture (VIDEO) | The Srpska Times". Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  14. ^ "Hercegovačka Gračanica | Sightseeing | Trebinje". www.inyourpocket.com. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  15. ^ Gračanica ... The Golden Apple on YouTube Official channel of RTS

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