Glogovac monastery
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  Location within Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Monastery information | |
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| Other names | манастир Глоговац |
| Order | Serbian Orthodox |
| Established | 1886 |
| Dedicated to | dedicated to Saint George |
| Site | |
| Location | near the village of Babići, municipality of Šipovo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska entity |
| Coordinates | 44°13′10″N 17°12′42″E / 44.219583°N 17.211717°E |
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The Glogovac Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Глоговац, romanized: Manastir Glogovac) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to Saint George and located at the village of Babići near Šipovo in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the only monastery in this area.
First reconstruction
[edit]The monastery was built in a narrow gorge of the Glogovac river in 1886. It was burned down during World War II and restored in the 1960s.[1] According to one of the stories, enslaved Serbs asked the Sultan of Turkey to allow them to re-build this holy place. Permission was granted under condition that church bells were not heard. This is the reason the monastery is built between steep hills.[2]
Reconstruction
[edit]Glogovac is the spiritual focal point for this area. Seventy five years after the monastery was re-built it was destroyed again. This time it was done by the Ustaše and this happened on October 14, 1944. Around 1960, the monastery was sufficiently re-built to be used as a parish church. In 1999, complete reconstruction was started and it was finished in 2005.[3] Left of the main building, work on building St. George's camp has started. Another project underway is the finishing of a building for pilgrims.
References
[edit]- ^ "Glogovac monastery".
- ^ "Епархија Бихаћко Петровачка / Eparhija Bihaćko Petrovačka".
- ^ "Patrijarh Pavle osveštao manastir Glogovac". Nezavisne novine. Archived from the original on 2013-01-30. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
- Buildings and structures in Republika Srpska
- Šipovo
- Nemanjić dynasty endowments
- 14th-century establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Christian monasteries established in the 14th century
- Medieval sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina