Glogovac Monastery

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Glogovac Monastery
Glogovac Monastery is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Glogovac Monastery
Location within Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Monastery information
Other namesманастир Глоговац
OrderSerbian Orthodox
Established1886
Dedicated todedicated to Saint George
Site
Locationnear the village of Babići, municipality of Šipovo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska entity
Coordinates44°13′10″N 17°12′42″E / 44.219539°N 17.211620°E / 44.219539; 17.211620

The Glogovac Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Глоговац, romanized: Manastir Glogovac) is a 19th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery located at the village of Babići near Šipovo in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The monastery is dedicated to Saint George, and it is the only monastery in this area.

Founding and first reconstruction

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The monastery was built in a narrow gorge of the small Glogovac River in 1886.[1][2] It was burned down during World War II and restored in the 1960s.[3] According to one of the stories, enslaved Serbs asked the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to allow them to re-build this holy place. Permission was granted on condition that church bells were not heard. For this reason, the monastery was built between steep hills.[4]

Reconstruction

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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.[5] 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.

See also

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*List of Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Bosnia and Herzegovina

References

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  1. ^ Ševo, Ljiljana (2016). "Survey of the Architecture of the Orthodox Churches in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Period of 1878–1918". Contemporary perception of the Austro-Hungarian cultural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina [Contemporary perception of the Austro-Hungarian cultural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina] (pdf) (in Bosnian) (proceedings of the Symposium 2014 ed.). Sarajevo: ICOMOS National Committee in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ISBN 978-9958-9094-7-4. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  2. ^ "Monastery Glogovac". Туристичка организација Републике Српске (in Serbian). Retrieved 17 Oct 2025.
  3. ^ "Glogovac Monastery".
  4. ^ "Епархија Бихаћко Петровачка / Eparhija Bihaćko Petrovačka".
  5. ^ "Patrijarh Pavle osveštao manastir Glogovac". Nezavisne novine. Archived from the original on 2013-01-30. Retrieved 2008-07-21.