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Bar, Church of St. Mark (Franciscan Church)
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The remains of the Church of St. Mark (Franciscan Church) is situated in the city of Bar.
Its a single nave edifice with four bays (similar to the Church C in Ratac). In the central bay was a dome. Its apse is rectangular. On the North side of the Church is a sacristy consisted of two bays, and on the Western side is a chapel of unknown purpose. The ktetor was probably the Queen Helen of Anjou.
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Gradac, Church of St. Nicholas
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The Church of St. Nicholas is situated in Gradac and was built somewhat before the Church of the Annunciation in Gradac. It is a single nave edifice with rectangular apse. The church was fresco painted in the 14th century. In the 19th century the frescoes have been painted over.
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Gurdić (Kotor), Franciscan Monastery, Church of St. Mary
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The Franciscan Monastery in Gurdić in the city of Kotor was built by the Serbian Queen Jelena Anžujska (ca. 1230-1314) in 1288, when she brought the Franciscans from Dubrovnik to Kotor. Today in ruins (only the foundations remain), it was a single nave edifice with rectangular apse. It probably had a Gothic vault. On the Northern side was a sacristy with an apse (semicircular on the inside and three-sided on the outside. The monastery was ruined by the Venetians in the 17th century.
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Kotor, Church of St. Luke
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The Church of St. Luke is situated to the South-West of the Northern city gate in the old part of Kotor. It was built in 1195 with the efforts of Mauro Casafranco in the time of the Serbian Grand Župan Stefan Nemanja (reigned 1166/68-1196), as is written on an inscription carved in a stone slab placed on the Western façade of the Church (a ktetorial inscription next to the ruler's name is a proof of the new practice in Serbia). It is a Romanesque single-nave church with a dome and with leaning arches divided into three aisles, of which the middle one is longer. On the East is a large semicircular apse. On the Northern side of the church another church was erected in the 18th century and is dedicated to St. Spyridon. However, spolia placed in the church (lintel, portal, stone furniture, etc.) probably belonged to the Church of St. Michael in Kotor. During conservation works in 1971 a fresco was discovered on the Southern wall of the West aisle belonging to 12th century Byzantine art.
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Kotor, Church of St. Paul
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The Church of St. Paul is situated in the city of Kotor. It was built by the citizen of Kotor Pavle Bari in 1263, as stated in the inscription on the façade, also mentioning the Serbian King Stefan Uroš I (reigned 1243-1276) and Bishop Marco of Kotor. The church was remodeled in the 16th century and became a Dominican Monastery. It is a single nave edifice with three bays with groin vaults and a semicircular apse. Today remains of the church of the 13th century are visible beneath the glass floor, and in front of the building is a sarcophagus, where its ktetor was buried.
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Skadar, Church of St. Nicholas
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The Church of St. Nicholas is situated in the vicinity of Skadar. It was erected by the Serbian Queen Jelena Anžujska (ca. 1230-1314) in 1280. It is a three nave basilica with a semicircular apse. For the needs of Orthodox liturgies the altar space received short bays and was raised one step above the floor of the church. Also, a semicircular niche was found in the Northern nave for the needs of the proskomedia. The church was ruined in the 1960s.
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Skadar, Church of the Sts. Sergius and Bacchus
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The Church of the Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, a Benedictine Monastery, is situated at the Bojana River in the vicinity of Skadar. According to the Chronicle of Bar, the church was the mausoleum of the Vojislavljević dynasty in the 11th century. Two inscriptions in Latin have remained that mention the name of the Serbian Queen Jelena Anžujska (ca. 1230-1314) dated to 1290 and 1318 respectively, which highlight her and her son, the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin (reigned 1282-1321), as ktetors probably in the time of the renewal of the church. It is a three nave edifice and each nave ends with a semicircular apse in the East. Unfortunately, the church has been gradually ruined by the Bojana River.
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Stari Bar, Church of St. George (St. Theodore)
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The Church of St. George is situated in the old town of Bar (Stari Bar) on an elevation called Londža. Beneath the remains of the Romanesque Church of St. George (dated to the 12th century) the remains of an older church, dedicated to St. Theodore, were discovered (probably built in the 5th or 6th century). When the Church of St. Theodore was erected in Stari Bar, a mosaic floor from the triconchos edifice in Novi Bar, which had already been in ruins at that time, was transferred. The older church of St. Theodore was probably ruined in a fire, and a new edifice honoring St. George was erected by Archbishop George of Bar (as evidenced by a tombstone) in the 12th century, thus becoming the see of the Archbishopric of Bar. Both churches were three nave basilicas. The Church of St. George had three apses. Remains of vaults indicate gothic elements. Fragments of stone furnishing and decoration belonging to the altar screen have been found. In 1125, King Grubeša of Zeta (reigned ca. 1118- ca. 1125) was buried in the church. High dignitaries of the Archbishopric of Bar were also buried there, e.g. Bishop Jovan from the time of Prince Vladimir and the Archbishops George, Peter and Sergius, who lived in the period from the 11th to the 12th centuries. The church was turned into a mosque in the 16th century, and in 1881 the church was completely destroyed by a gunpowder explosion or, as some indicate, by lightning (since the church served as an ammunition depot).
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Ston, Church of the Virgin of Lužina
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The Church of the Virgin of Lužine (Monastery of the Holy Mother of God) was built in the 10th or the 11th century in the Ston Polje field, close to the sea. It underwent several renovations in the 13th and 16th centuries which makes it difficult to determine its former appearance.
The Church is a single-nave edifice with a semicircular apse, and a tower on its Western end (built during later renovations). It is also probable that this Church Sava Nemanjić designated as the seat of the bishopric in Hum, in 1220.
The Church was repaired and restored after an earthquake in 1667 and later again in 1891. Today it is a Roman Catholic Church.
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Svač, Church of St. John the Baptist
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The remains of the Church of St. John the Baptist are situated in Svač near the city of Ulcinj. Some researchers have suggested that this edifice could have been built by the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin (reigned 1282-1321) around 1300, although there is insufficient evidence to support this assumption. The preserved Latin inscription on the Western façade, South of the door, testifies that the Church was built in 1300 (MCCC), for the catholics.
It is a single nave edifice with a semicircular apse. Later, above the apse a tower was built marking this edifice as a Cathedral Church. To this type of building belongs also a Church of St. John in Raša in Albania.
The concept and dimensions of the basic space of the Church include the possibility of the influence of the architecture of the first buildings of the Franciscans and Dominicans in medieval Serbia, which would correspond to the end of the 13th century (1300 AD).
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Svač, Early Medieval Church
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The remains of an Early Medieval church are known only from finds excavated in the Romanesque church of St. John the Baptist. This first edifice was probably built in the 9th century, and the Church of St. John in 1300.
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Svač, Franciscan Monastery, Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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The Franciscan Monastery dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary is situated in Svač near the city of Ulcinj and was built by the Serbian Queen Jelena Anžujska (ca. 1230-1314) in 1288. Today in ruins, only the foundations remain, it was a single-nave edifice with a rectangular apse and wooden roof. Fragments of fresco decoration are still visible. In the lunette of the portal of the church, parts of the fresco of the Virgin have been preserved.
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Trepča, Saxon Church
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The Saxon Church is situated in Stari Trg, near Trepča (near Kosovska Mitrovica). The earliest written historical source mentioning the existence of the Catholic Church in Trepča is a letter from Pope Benedict IX to Archbishop Marin of Bar, written in 1303. Therefore, we know that the Church was built before 1303 and was initially dedicated to the Holy Virgin. It is recorded that the body of King Milutin was transferred to this Church from his mausoleum (the Church of St. Stephen in Banjska) when the Turks invaded, and later moved to Bulgaria (Sofia).
As name suggests the Saxon Church was erected thanks to German miners, referred to as the Saxons in Serbian sources. In Trepča lived a strong colony from Dubrovnik, and in ecclesiastical terms Trepča was under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Kotor.
Its a three-aisle, domed, basilica with three semicircular apses, modelled after the cathedrals of Kotor (Church of St. Tryphon) and Dubrovnik (Romanesque cathedral). Today is in ruins, with only an Eastern wall with three apses remaining (with still visible gothic windows). The Church was fresco painted in Byzantine iconography and style.
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