Manastir Tumane

Tumane Monastery or Djerdap Ostrog, as many call it, is located in the Golubac Valley, on the very bank of the stream of the same name, twelve kilometers from Golupac. Several legends are related to the origin of the name of the monastery, but the most common is the one about Miloš Obilić. According to that tradition, Miloš inadvertently wounded the hermit Zosimo Sinait, who lived in a nearby cave, while hunting. When he took him to the vidar for treatment, the hermit told him: Tu me mani (I have no medicine, let me die there). In order to atone for his sin, Miloš built a monastery in that place, which was named after the hermit's last words - Tuman. It is not known exactly when the monastery was built, but it is known that it was mentioned for the first time in the census of 1572/3. year. In the second half of the 16th century, a literary work - the Tuman Apocryphal Collection - was created in this monastery. At the time of the Kočina Krajina, it was burned by the Turks. The monastery was rebuilt in 1797, and in 1879 it was badly damaged in an earthquake. In 1883, renovation was carried out, and in 1910, the church was demolished. The Balkan wars delayed the construction of a new church, so the current one was built only in 1924. In 1934, the Russian monastic brotherhood from the Miljkova monastery was moved to the monastery. Since 1966, Tumane has been a women's monastic monastery.