Manastir Ravanica

The Ravanica monastery is located at the foot of Kučajski mountain, in the village of Senje near Ćuprija. It is an endowment of Saint Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović. It was built between 1375 and 1377. The cathedral is dedicated to the Ascension of the Lord and is located in the central part of the monastery complex surrounded by a powerful fortification with seven towers, a refectory, monastic cells, and necessary economic buildings. According to its architectural and artistic features, the Ravanička church is the progenitor of a new style of art, the so-called Moravian school. Its interior is decorated with frescoes around 1385, on the eve of the Battle of Kosovo. After the transfer of the relics from Pristina's Church of the Ascension to Ravanica in 1392, the monastery became a place of pilgrimage where the cult of Saint Prince Lazar, the martyr of Kosovo, was created. During the Second World War, the relics were transferred to the Cathedral Church in Belgrade, so that for the great jubilee of 600 years since the Battle of Kosovo, the body of Saint Prince Lazar was returned to its endowment.