The Church of the Mother of God of Ljeviša (Virgin Eleousa) is dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God. It is situated in the city of Prizren and was built by King Milutin 1307-1313 on the ground of an earlier three-nave basilica, probably from the 9th or the 10th century (at the latest).
Its is said that St. Sava visited Prizern at the beginning of the 13th century, when the first Serbia bishop of the city was ordained. It was the first restoration of the edifice as evidences by the inscriptions on the frescoes in the South aisle dated in 1220.
In the 14th century the edifice was remodeled and turned into a building with five domes, three-partite apses which are semicircular on the inside and three-sided on the outside and an exonarthex with two floors and a bell-tower.
According to the inscription on the exonarthex we know that the reconstruction of the Church was managed by masters Nikola (architecture) and Michael Astrapas (painting).
The Church was fresco-painted in the 13th century and later in the 14th by the hand of Michael Astrapas and his assistants.
In 1346, after the proclamation of the Serbian Patriarchate this Church was elevated to the rank of metropolitanate. In the 15th century Prizren was occupied by the Turks. In the 18th century it was turned into a mosque. In 2006 the Church was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of an ensemble of medieval monuments in Kosovo.