The Žiča Monastery is an early 13th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia. The monastery, together with the Church of the Holy Dormition, was built by the first King of Serbia, Stefan the First-Crowned and the first Head of the Serbian Church, Saint Sava.
Žiča Monastery
Žiča Monastery entrance
Church of the Holy Dormition in the monastery
Žiča in 1889
The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade, Serbia
Saint Sava, first Serbian archbishop
Trojeručica meaning "Three-handed Theotokos" is the most important icon of the SOC, and the main icon of Mount Athos
Serbian Patriarch Danilo III, fresco from the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć