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Budisavci Monastery, Church of Transfiguration of Jesus Christ

Manastir Budisavci, Crkva Preobraženja Hristovog, Манастир Будисавци, Црква Преображења Христовог

Begin 01.01.1300
End 31.12.1321

Properties

ID 124237
System Class Place
Place Existing Monastery
Case Study Beyond East and West: Sacred Landscapes Duklja and Raška
Dedication The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ
Denomination Orthodox
Evidence Existing Monument
Ground Plans Inscribed Cross in Square with a Dome
Stylistic Classification Byzantine
Administrative unit Kosovo , Serbia

Description

Budisavci Monastery is situated in the Budisavci village, 18km South-East of the city of Peć. It was built in the first half of the 14th century. Researchers believe ktetors were either King Milutin (as mentioned in the partially saved inscription) or the sister of King Stefan Dečanski. The Church was reconstructed and fresco painted in the 16th century by Patriarch Makarije Sokolović.
The Church is in the form of an inscribed cross with a dome, an apse which is semicircular on the inside and rectangular on the outside and a narthex (which was renewed in the 19th century). Frescoes from the 14th century have not survived, and a new layer was made in the 16th century.