The Banja Monastery ( sr, Манастир Бања, Manastir Banja) is a

Serbian Orthodox Monastery Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also * * * Old Serbian (disambiguation) ...

located near

Priboj Priboj ( sr-Cyrl, Прибој, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia. The population of the town is 14,920, while the population of the municipality is 27,133. Geography The municipality of Priboj i ...

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. Monastery Banja presents

Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance Immovable Cultural Heritage of Exceptional Importance ( sr, Непокретна културна добра од изузетног значаја/) are those objects of Immovable Cultural Heritage of Serbia, cultural heritage that enjoy the highes ...

in Serbia.

History

Time of founding of the monastery is unknown, but the first historical sources (

Studenica Typicon The Studenica Typikon ( sr, Студенички типик/Studenički tipik) is a Serbian Orthodox ''typikon'' written in 1208 by Serbian Archbishop Saint Sava, Sava, a member of the Nemanjić dynasty and the first head of the autocephalous Ser ...

) mention it in the 12th century. In 1220 Banja became center of Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Dabar. There are three churches within the monastery, the Church of St. Nicholas, of St. Eliah and the Church of Ascension of the Holy Virgin. St. Nicholas Church, the main monastery church, was founded by King

Stefan Dečanski Stefan Uroš III ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош III, ), known as Stefan Dečanski ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Дечански, ; 1276 – 11 November 1331), was the King of Serbia from 6 January 1322 to 8 September 1331. Dečanski was the son of ...

(r. 1322–31) in 1329. The original church was burned during the Ottoman invasion. Itzkowitz, Norman (1980). Ottoman Empire and Islamic tradition. University of Chicago Press The church was restored in 1570 and gained its present look in 1904 when the last restoration took place. The monastery was not only center of the bishopric but the mausoleum of

Vojnović noble family The Vojnović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Војновић, Vojnovići / Војновићи) or Vojinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Војиновић, Vojinovići / Војиновићи), was a Serbian noble family in the Bay of Kotor and Dalmatia activ ...

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