Church of Our Lady of Ljevis
Five-domed Serbian Orthodox church of 1307 in Prizren, on the UNESCO list of Medieval Monuments in Kosovo.
Our Lady of Ljevis stands in the middle of Prizren, a short walk from the Shadervan square. A church existed on the site by the eleventh century; the present building was raised in 1306 and 1307 for the Serbian king Stefan Milutin, who had the older basilica absorbed into a new five-domed plan. An inscription over the entrance names the builder as the master Nikola. The church served as the cathedral of the bishops of Prizren until the Ottoman conquest, after which it was turned into a mosque and its paintings whitewashed.
Conservation in the twentieth century removed the plaster and revealed wall paintings of the early fourteenth century, some of them signed by the Byzantine painters Michael Astrapas and Eutychios, together with older twelfth-century work in the earlier fabric. Brick and stone are laid in decorative courses on the outside, and a tower rises over the narthex. The church was badly burned in the riots of March 2004 and has been under repair since; it was inscribed by UNESCO in 2006 within the Medieval Monuments in Kosovo.
Highlights
- Built in 1306-07 for King Milutin by the master Nikola
- Fourteenth-century frescoes by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios
- Five domes and patterned courses of brick and stone
- Part of the UNESCO Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
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