Sveti Đurađ or St. George Monastery ( sr-cyr, Манастир Свети Ђурађ; ro, Mănăstirea Sfântul Gheorghe) is a medieval
Serbian Orthodox
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The majority of the population ...
monastery located in
Mânăstire,
Timiș County
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,
Romania, 20 km from the Romanian-Serbian border. It was established in 1485 by Serbian
despot Jovan Branković
Jovan Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Бранковић; ; c. 1465 – 10 December 1502) was the titular Despot of Serbia from 1493 until his death in 1502. The title of despot was given to him by Hungarian king Vladislas II of Hungary. From 1 ...
; the present buildings date to 1794, built by
Iguman Augustin Petrović as a school and monastic church.
Services are held here daily in
Serbian
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and
Old Church Slavonic. The last resident of the monastery, Sister Evgenija, died in 2020. Among the relics that the monastic church houses is a fragment of the skull of
Saint George, brought here in the 15th century by
Đorđe Branković, and a piece of the chain with which
Saint Peter
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, death_date = Between AD 64–68
, death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire
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, occupation ...
was bound.
The monastery is listed as a
historic monument by Romania's
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. The monastic church and the monks' cells are given as separate entries.
History
Legend has it that the monastery was founded during the
Iconoclastic movement, under Empress
Irene
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and her son
Constantine, at the end of the 8th century, but it is much more likely that it was founded much later, in the medieval era.
In the second half of the 15th century, the Serbian despot
Đorđe Branković asked the sovereign pontiff for permission to build 12 monasteries on the territory of the Hungarian kingdom. This monastery was built by
Jovan Branković
Jovan Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Бранковић; ; c. 1465 – 10 December 1502) was the titular Despot of Serbia from 1493 until his death in 1502. The title of despot was given to him by Hungarian king Vladislas II of Hungary. From 1 ...
, his son.
After 1944, the monastery became a barracks for a while, then an office building for the agricultural production cooperative in the village. In the 1980s, the workers of Comtim, a local pork producer, were housed here. It was also used as a feed store. It became monastery again only after 1990.
Architecture
The first church was erected in 1485. It was built of burnt brick in the
Serbo-Byzantine style with a cruciform base, a dome and a separate bell tower. It lasted until 1794 when the current church was built, which preserved the foundations of the Serbo-Byzantine style to which
Baroque
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elements were added. The
iconostasis is sumptuous, gilded, the interior decoration being representative of the
Serbian Baroque. It was painted by
Jovan Isailović, and the painting on the walls was executed by a certain Pavle Đurđev, a resident of the monastic estates.
Gallery
File:Mânăstire - panoramio (2).jpg, The church of the monastery
File:Chiliile - 3 - Mânăstirii Sf. Gheorghe - jud. Timiş, Romania.jpg, The monks' cells
File:Sv Djuradj3.JPG, The iconostasis
See also
*
Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery
References
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Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Romania
Historic monuments in Timiș County
Churches completed in 1794
1485 establishments in Europe