SACRAL

ARCHITECTURE OF
MEDIEVAL SERBIA:
APPROPRIATION
AND SYNTHESIS

IVAN STEVOVIĆ, FACULTY OF

PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF
BELGRADE
 Miroslav’s Gospel,
end of XII c.

Sopoćani Monastery, Unknown

Holy Martyr, mid-XIII c.
Studenica Monastery,
“King’s Church”, 1314
Ohrid (FYROM),St. Sophia, Seat of Ohrid
Archbishopric, XI c.
Architecture and the Ruler
Stephen Nemanja (St. Symeon)
-born c. 1113(?)
-Grand Župan c. 1166 (?)-1196
-monk at Mt. Athos 1196-1199
- Serbian saint c. 1207

Church of St.
George, c.
1171(?),model,
ground plan
and section
 Church of St.
George, c. 1171(?)
Church of St. George,
exterior looking South
Church of St. George, interior
of dome (partly restored)
Stephen Uroš II Milutin,
Serbian King 1282-1321
Mt. Athos, Hilandar Monastery
Studenica Monastery, “King’s
Church”, 1314
Banjska Monastery, Church of St. Stephen, c. 1316
(heavily damaged and partly restored)
Prizren, Virgin “Ljeviška” Church, c.1306
(before demolition in 2004)
Staro Nagoričino (FYROM), Church of
St. George, 1314, exterior looking
South

walls of Byzantine basilica, XI c.

Architecture and the True Faith
Studenica Monastery, Virgin’s
Church, c.1183-1209
Studenica Monastery, Virgin’s
Church, western portal
Studenica Monastery,
apse window
Constantinople, Hagia Sophia, dado
zone

Ephesus, tomb of St. John

Studenica Monastery, marble

revetment
Žiča Monastery, Church of the Ascension, c.1205-c.1225

Phase 1

Phase 2, atrium rebuilt to Phase 2, added later

closed exonartex
Žiča Monastery, detail of
Charter with list of
relics:
- True Cross
- relics of Christ’s
Passion
-Virgin’s robe and belt
- John the Baptist’s
right hand and skull
- relics of the Apostles,
Martyrs and other
Saints
Žiča Monastery, exterior looking South-East
(after extensive restoration)
Sopoćani Monastery, Church of Holy
Trinity, c.1265
 Gradac
Monastery,
Virgin’s
Church, c.1270
Gradac Monastery, Virgin’s Church,
interior looking East
Dečani Monastery, Church of Christ Pantokrator, 1327- 1335
Kalenić Monastery, Virgin’s Church, c.1407-1413
Kalenić monastery,Virgin’s Church, upper zone of apse