Savina Monastery
Orthodox monastery above the Bay of Kotor with three churches and a treasury of icons and plate.
Savina Monastery lies about two kilometres east of Herceg Novi, on a wooded slope of holm oak and cypress above the entrance to the Bay of Kotor. Tradition connects the site with Saint Sava in the thirteenth century, and a fresco inscription in the oldest building gives the year 1030, but the surviving Small Church of the Dormition is generally dated on stylistic grounds to the Kosača period in the mid-fifteenth century. Its wall paintings survive in layers, with work identified from 1565 and again from 1831, and a separate Church of Saint Sava stands higher up the hill.
The Great Church of the Dormition was built between 1777 and 1799 by the Korčula master builder Nikola Foretić, who combined a Byzantine plan with Romanesque and baroque detailing in pale Korčula stone. Its iconostasis was painted in 1795 by the priest Simeon Lazović of Bijelo Polje and his son Aleksije. The monastery treasury is among the richest in the region and holds a thirteenth-century crystal cross associated with Saint Sava, the reliquary ark brought from Tvrdoš in 1615, embroidered shrouds, chalices, manuscripts and printed gospels.
Highlights
- Three churches on one wooded site above the Bay of Kotor
- Great Church of 1777–99 by Korčula master Nikola Foretić
- Iconostasis painted in 1795 by Simeon and Aleksije Lazović
- Treasury with the crystal cross linked to Saint Sava
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