| Dobrićevo Monastery | |
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Манастир Добрићево | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Serbian Orthodox |
| Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina |
| Patron | Presentation of the Virgin |
| Location | |
| Location | Orah |
| Municipality | Bileća |
| State | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
  Shown within Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
 Interactive map of Dobrićevo Monastery | |
| Coordinates | 42°49′04″N18°24′48″E / 42.817801°N 18.413198°E /42.817801; 18.413198 |
| Architecture | |
| Completed | late 15th - early 16th century |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 15.5 metres (51 ft) |
| Width | 8 metres (26 ft) |
| Height (max) | 8 metres (26 ft)[1] |
| Materials | stone |
| Designated asNHL | |
| Official name | Monastery of the Presentation of the Virgin in Dobrićevo, the architectural ensemble |
| Type | Category I cultural and historical property |
| Criteria | A, B, C i.ii.iii.iv.v.vi, D i.ii.iii.iv.v, E i.ii.iii.iv.v,, F.iii., G i.ii.iii.iv. |
| Designated | 17 May 2006 |
| Part of | List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Reference no. | 2823 |
| Decision No. | 06.1-2-64/06-7 |
| Website | |
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TheDobrićevo Monastery (Serbian:Манастир Добрићево,romanized: Manastir Dobrićevo), thePresentation of the Virgin, is aSerbian Orthodoxmonastery located inOrah, modern-dayBileća municipality,Bosnia and Herzegovina. The monastery was originally built in the 15th or 16th century by the riverTrebišnjica and then moved in 1964 upstream to Orah village, near town ofBileća in the eponymousmunicipality, because its original location was flooded after the completion of theGrančarevo Dam in 1965.
On 17 May 2006, theKONS of Bosnia and Herzegovina designated Dobrićevo Monastery aNational Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
There is no written record of the exact date when the Dobrićevo church was built, but two most frequent scholarly opinions put it between the first half of the 15th and early 16th century respectively.[2] Architect Marica Šuput recognized the characteristicarchitectural elements of the church and the oldest layer of frescoes, which she concluded are placing the Dobrićevo church in the early 16th century.[2][3]Zdravko Kajmaković has also addressed this problem by comparing the church to one other oldcruciform church inSopotnica nearGoražde, concluding that it is the only "analogous" to the one in Dobrićevo, thus placing Dobričevo into the first half of the 15th century, and its renovation to the early 16th.[2][4]
During its history the monastery was destroyed or damaged several times. It was looted twice, in 1649 and 1680. The same year cistern was built, 1672, the fire swept through the church.damaging the frescoes. From around this period the monastery was abandoned and left unattended until at least 1730, a date of earliest information of its renovation.[2][5] During the1875–78 uprising, the monastery was plundered.[1] On 5 August 1914, the monastery was seriously damaged byAustro-Hungarian troops, who set the church on fire, destroying the entireiconostasis with many other valuables, such as books and relics, only a portion of which were saved by the monks; the murals were heavily damaged or destroyed.[2][1][6]
According to the local legend, the monastery was built on the foundations of earlier Christian basilica which was, built byConstantine the Great andHelena.[7] The legend says thatnarthex was built after the main church building by members of theAleksić family whose descendants still lived in nearby Oputna Rudina village at the beginning of the 20th century.[1]
The monastery was originally built some 20 kilometres (12 mi) upstream fromTrebinje, on the right bank of theTrebišnjica river, above the village ofDubočani at the location called Manastirska Greda (328 m. a.s.l.). The original location was flooded with the creation of theBilećko lake, a reservoir created after construction of the Grančarevo dam andTrebinje-1 Hydroelectric Power Station in 1967.[2][8] The relocation upstream to a new location near the village of Orah, approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the south-southwest ofBileća, on the Bilećko Lake shore, was carried out in 1964-65 in parallel with the construction of the dam for theTrebinje-1 hydroelectric power station.
Adjacent to the Dobrićevo Monastery was theKosijerevo Monastery, just on the other side across the Trebišnjica river which today belongs to Montenegro.[2][9] Like Dobrićevo, Kosijerevo has also been moved to another location,[2] to Petrovići village, nearNikšić in the region of theBanjani tribe.[10]
Slava of Dobrićevo Monastery isPresentation of Mary.[11]
On 17 May 2006, theKONS of Bosnia and Herzegovina designated Dobrićevo Monastery aNational Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2]
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