The Dajbabe Monastery ( sr, Манастир Дајбабе, Manastir Dajbabe) is an

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Podgorica Podgorica (Cyrillic: Подгорица, ; lit. 'under the hill') is the capital and largest city of Montenegro. The city was formerly known as Titograd (Cyrillic: Титоград, ) between 1946 and 1992—in the period that Montenegro form ...

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. It is located in a cave on Dajbabe hill (''Dajbabska gora''), which raises above

Zeta valley The Zeta Plain ( cnr, Зетска равница, Zetska ravnica, ) is a fertile lowland in Montenegro. It stretches from Podgorica in the north to the Skadar Lake in the south. It is the biggest plains area in Montenegro, with an average elevati ...

(Zetska ravnica). The Dajbabe Monastery was dedicated to ''Uspenje Bogorodice'' or the

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, the monastery was founded in 1897. In the beginning, only the space of the cave was used as a

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, with the plan to be expanded later with chapels. The visible part of the church is situated outside the cave, depicting a spacious entrance porch with two belfries. The Dajbabe Monastery also possesses a reliquary with the relics of St. Simeon Dajbabe.Dajbabe monastery
on the official website of the

Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr, Митрополија црногорско-приморска Српске православне цркве, Mitropolija crnogorsko-primorska Srpske pravoslav ...

of Serbian Orthodox Church

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