The Monastery of Saint Archangel Gabriel ( sr, Манастир Светог Архангела Гаврила, Manastir Svetog Arhangela Gavrila), also known as the Zemun monastery ( sr, Манастир Земун, Manastir Zemun) is a
Serbian Orthodox monastery
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. Its church was built in 1786, on the site of an older church in the
Donji Grad neighbourhood of
Zemun
Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; hu, Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown Belgrade. The developme ...
(today part of
Belgrade,
Serbia
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). The monastery was officially established in 1990.
History
The founder was
Teodor–Toša Apostolović, the president of the Zemun ecclesiastical province. After the dismantling of the quarantine zone (kontumac) in 1842, the church lost its importance and by the second half of the 20th century, it was abandoned. In 1981, the abandoned church was used by then jeromonah (present Bishop) Filaret. On his behalf, the church was renovated, as the frescoes were destroyed and the church was used as a weapon cache. In 1990, protosinđel Filaret gained a permit to build a temple (cathedral) of 3,000 m2 on the site of the church, however, the following year, newly elected
Serbian Patriarch Pavle
Pavle ( sr-cyr, Павле, ''Paul''; 11 September 1914 – 15 November 2009) was the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1990 to his death. His full title was ''His Holiness the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and ...
declined.
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List of Serb Orthodox monasteries
This is a list of Serbian Orthodox Christian monasteries in Serbia and near areas (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Kosovo), also Romania, Hungary, Greece, Germany, United States of America, Canada, and Australi ...
References
External links
Monasteries in BelgradeAbout the monastery
(in Serbian)
About the monastery
(in Serbian)
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Belgrade
18th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Churches completed in 1786
Zemun
Syrmia
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