{"id":3679,"date":"2025-09-17T10:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultbikeroute.com\/landmarks\/manastir-crna-reka\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:14:18","slug":"crna-reka-monastery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cultbikeroute.com\/en\/cultural-heritage-sites\/crna-reka-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"CRNA REKA MONASTERY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cultural site: CRNA REKA MONASTERY<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Crna Reka Monastery is a monastic hermitage located in the gorge of Crna Reka, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe village Ribari\u0107e (municipality of Tutin) on the border between Kosovska Mitrovica, Ro\u017eaje and Novi Pazar. The monastery has been hidden from the public from the beginning, so history has followed it in its records.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Crna Reka Monastery certainly existed at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century. It is not known when exactly it was founded. From the beginning, the monastery was conceived as a hermitage, a place where people would retreat to distance themselves from the world, in order to pray to God. The monastery was named after Saint Joanikije who lived in the monastery and is considered to be the founder of the monastery. Since it was never demolished, the monastery has preserved its original physiognomy to this day, and it preserves the most precious Serbian fresco-biography from the 16th century.1 The writings mention the 18th century, when a fountain was built near the monastery. In 1898, a school was built here next to the monastery. At that time it was still part of the Turkish Empire and students were educated there for a long time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The main monastery church is dedicated to St. Archangel Michael and St. Archangel Gabriel. What makes the Crna Reka monastery specific is its church. The main church of this monastery is located in a cave. Its base is rectangular and has one ship. Next to the main church, in the immediate vicinity of the monastery, there are three hermitages. They are dedicated to: the holy apostle and evangelist Luke, the holy prophet Ilija and the ancestor Enoh, as well as the Venerable Siluan of Athos.3The surroundings of the monastery are woven for ascetics and there are several caves in it which are used by monks for asceticism. In recent times, the monastic life in the monastery has revived. In addition to the church and school, there is also a bell tower, and nearby there is a boarding house, a guest hall, a library and a shop. Due to the high humidity, all books decay quickly.4Due to heavy rains and moisture, the wooden roof and the access bridge, also made of wood, which have not been renovated for decades, are in danger of collapsing.5In the caves of the monastery Crna Reka, hidden high in the hills of Mokra gora, the relics of St. Peter of Koriska, the Miracle Worker, the protector of the sanctuary. It is believed that those who fall asleep under the saint's relics will cure all diseases, and it is believed that the water that flows from one wall in the monastery cave cures many diseases, and it is believed that the girls who serve at the monastery celebration will get married next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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