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Gračanica Monastery

c. 1321 · 14th century

Gračanica Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near Pristina in Kosovo, built by King Stefan Milutin around 1321. Its five-domed church is one of the finest works of late Byzantine-style architecture in the Balkans, and its interior is covered with frescoes, including portraits of the royal founders. It is part of the World Heritage Site Medieval Monuments in Kosovo.

Gračanica Monastery
Image: Sasa Micic · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Gračanica Monastery. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/gracanica-monastery
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The Epoch Institute. “Gračanica Monastery.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/gracanica-monastery.
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