Cultural site: Monastery Sv. Trojica

History

Despite the numerous historical sources about the Holy Trinity near Pljevlja, not a single one has been preserved in which one would talk precisely about the year based on this monastic center. The only thing that is certain is that it existed and lived very intensively during the 16th century, as evidenced by a considerable number of archival data, inscriptions, as well as records

in books. In the fourth decade of the 16th century, the monastery was mentioned for the first time in manuscript books. Then the history of the Trinity of Plevalj can be traced almost from decade to decade. Considering all the circumstances, it could be concluded that the monastery of the Holy Trinity was renovated during the thirties of the 16th century, at the latest in 1537, with the efforts of a wealthy family, whose members became monks. On that occasion, as was customary and legally correct, permission was obtained to rebuild the church on the old foundations or repair the demolished one. On that occasion, the founder had a church built - a nave and an altar space.

Cultural site details

Today's appearance of the monastery is the result of many interventions that have taken place over the past decades. After the intervention in the 16th century, the narthex was erected, and in 1876 the outer narthex was built, next to the old one. Many interventions of previously built parts were carried out at that time. The dome above the narthex is high so that it dominates the entire building, and the walls of the nave and the inner narthex have been rebuilt to give the 16th century temple, which is quite modest in size, a monumental look. Such an unusually harmonious connection of the three parts of the church changed the original appearance of the church of the Trinity of Pljevlja a lot. Erected on a narrow plain between the two hills that surround it, the monastery church of the Holy Trinity is mostly buried in the ground, and at the eastern end it almost touches a vertical rock - a hill just behind the building.2 As the terrain gradually rises from west to east, the floor in the altar space is about two meters lower than the ground level outside.

The monastery got its final look in 1875/1876. years. The monastery library has several copies of valuable manuscript illuminated books, some of which were created in the monastery scriptorium, as well as rare copies of printed books, including the Six Days of John the Exarch, Kozma Indikoplov, a fragment of Trudbenik from the Crnojević printing house, a continuation of . Valuable books on parchment and paper from the 13th and 14th centuries are also kept here. In the treasury of the Monastery, in addition to several precious items made of silver, gold and wood related to worship, there is a valuable collection of icons, a silver-chained stick of St. Sava, one of the most beautiful examples of medieval embroidery - Epitrahilj Teotima from the XV century. bowls, incense burners, miniature carved crosses. The renovated monastery lodgings with the monastery in the middle form a very beautiful and harmonious whole.