Religious Monuments
In the vicinity of Bajina Bašta stands the Rača monastery, built in the 13th century. Over its long history, this monastery was destroyed several times and then reconstructed. Rača Monastery's final destruction (after the Turks and the Austro-Hungarian Army), came at the hands of the Bulgarian army in 1943. It was renovated and restored after the end of World War II. The church was an important center of transcription and illumination of Serbia's manuscripts, with its famed monks known as the Račani, during the 17th century.
The Mileševa Monastery, built in 1234 near Prijepolje, was the endowment of King Stefan Vladislav I of Serbia, the son of Stefan the First-Crowned. This monastery was the second most important in Serbia, after it received the bones of Serbia's most-revered partriarch, Saint Sava, in 1236. The monastery has been destroyed and rebuilt several times, though luckily, 100 compositions, frescoes of individual figures, and fragments of important religious icons have been preserved. The most famous icon of Mileševa is The White Angel fresco, a famous, widely-used religious icon throughout Serbia.
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