Glogovac Monastery
The monastery Glogovac ( Serbian : Манастир Глоговац, Manastir Glogovac) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near the village Babići , 15 km south of Šipovo in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
The monastery belongs to the Eparchy Bihać - Petrovac of the Serbian Orthodox Church and is dedicated to St. George the Great Martyr .
The monastery is known for the spiritual and cultural event Janjski Sabor. Currently the monastery is not inhabited by monks .
location
The monastery is located in the village area of the village of Babin Do , in the gorge of the Glogovac river between the hills of Mount Gorica , in the geographical and historical region of Janj , which derives its name from the river of the same name . It is the only monastery in the region.
The Janj region, in which the monastery is the spiritual center, belongs to the municipality (Opština) Šipovo. The Opština Šipovo is located in the Republika Srpska , the predominantly Serbian part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The monastery is around 15 km away from the town center of Šipovo. The closest localities are the villages of Babin Do (2 km), Babići (4 km) and Čuklić (6 km).
history
The Glogovac Monastery has been completely destroyed several times in its long history.
middle Ages
The monastery was built in the first half of the 14th century , during the reigns of Kings Dragutin and Milutin . The first monastery was built under the medieval town of Šrp. Even then it was a spiritual center of the region.
Shortly after the conquest of Bosnia by the Ottomans in 1463, the monastery was destroyed for the first time. The monastery was devastated by the Ottomans, the monks murdered, the abbot of the Joanikije monastery impaled and finally the monastery complex was completely destroyed.
19th century
Until the 60s of the 19th century , the monastery Glogovac was not renewed, but it was never forgotten by the local Orthodox population. According to a local legend, in 1866 the population asked the Ottoman vizier Omer-Paša Latas for permission to build a church. The vizier instructed the population to bring the request to the Sultan in Istanbul , thinking that the request would be rejected. But when the approval for the building of the church came, the vizier again voluntarily allowed the building of the church, but in a place where the church bells could not be heard far away.
The narrow gorge of the Glogovac river was chosen. The construction of the parish church began in 1866, with which the first renovation of the monastery began. After three years of construction, the church was in 1869 by the Metropolitan of the Metropolitanate Dabrobosnien inaugurated Dionisije (Ilijević).
The monastery was damaged in the Serbian uprising against the Ottomans from 1875 to 1877, which began in Herzegovina and soon spread across Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the Austro-Hungarian conquest of Bosnia, the monastery was renovated from 1890 to 1892. At that time a village was founded around the monastery that became the center of the Janj region.
20th century
During the Second World War , the monastery and the village were set on fire by the Croatian-fascist Ustaša . On October 14, 1942, on the holiday of the Protection of the Virgin Mary , the monastery church was also set on fire by the Ustaša.
After the end of the war, at the request of the now communist government, the ruins of the village were removed and a ban on rebuilding the monastery was posted. The ban lasted until the 1960s. When the rebuilding of the monastery church was allowed. At that time the monastery belonged to the Banja Luka eparchy .
The then bishop of the Banja Luka eparchy was Andrej (Frušić). In the autumn of 1966 the renewed monastery was consecrated anew by the bishops Andrej (Frušić) of the Banja Luka eparchy and Vasilije (Kostić) of the Žiča eparchy in central Serbia .
In 1990 the monastery came to the newly founded Bihać-Petrovac eparchy. The then Serbian Patriarch Pavle (Stojčević) also inaugurated the monastery in 1991. The then Bishop of Bihać-Petrovac Hrizostom (Jević) was declared Archimandrite of the monastery by the Patriarch . Patriarch Pavle visited the monastery four times: 1991, 1998, 1999 and 2005. The monastery was also renovated in 2001.
Janjski Sabor
The spiritual and cultural event Janjski Sabor has been held in the monastery since the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . After the Second World War, this tradition was interrupted. Until 1991, when it was restarted with the visit of Patriarch Pavle.
The event takes place once a year on the Sunday of All Saints' Day. The Janjski Sabor is the largest event of its kind in this part of the Republika Srpska.
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- The monasteries of the Bihać-Petrovac eparchy , (Serbian)
- Site about the monastery on the site of the tourist organization of the Republika Srpska , (Serbian)
Coordinates: 44 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ N , 17 ° 5 ′ 22 ″ E
- About the monastery on the Tromeđa.rs page , (Serbian)