Krka Monastery
Krka Monastery is the most important Serbian Orthodox monastery in Croatia. It is a protected monument that is part of the Krka National Park.
About this building
The monastery was founded by Jelena Šubić, half-sister to the emperor Dušan of Serbia and wife to a Croatian nobleman. The land on which the monastery was erected had previously been occupied by a Roman basilica and a Catholic monastery. The catacombs and numerous early Christian graffiti are still preserved today.
The monks fled the monastery in the 17th century, forced by Ottoman raids. At that time it used to be home to an important treasure which included ancient manuscripts and a precious iconostasis. It did not resume his religious activity until 2001 when a renovated seminary was reopened.
The ecclesiastical complex comprises the church, the Romanesque bell tower, a rectangular cloister and the monks' and seminarians' quarters. The chapel of Saint Sava, built in the 19th century, was one of the latest additions together with a seminary and a dormitory building.
