The St. Mary's Church or Virgin Mary's Church () is an

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main Branches of Christianity, branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholic Church, Catholicism and Protestantism ...

cave church on the island of Maligrad, in the

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n part of

Lake Prespa The Lake Prespa is located on the tripoint of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece. It is a system of two lakes separated by an isthmus: the Great Prespa Lake, divided between the three countries, and the Little Prespa Lake, mostly within Greec ...

. It is a Cultural Monument of Albania. The church is dedicated to Saint Mary and was built by Serbian nobleman Kesar Novak (alb. ''Qesar Novaku''), in the year 1369. The church has frescoes and Greek inscriptions dated to 1369. Frescoes exist of the family of Kesar Novak, with his

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wife Kalia.Ivan M. Đorđević, ''Zidno slikarstvo srpske vlastele u doba Nemanjica''. OCL
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