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Peć, Church of St. Demetrius (Patriarchate of Peć)
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The Church of St. Demetrius is situated in the city of Peć. It was built by Archbishop Nikodim, probably between 1320 and 1324, as is written in the Peć Chronicle.
It is a reduced cruciform edifice with a spacious dome and altar. Western bay is lower and dimmer than the rest of the Church (serving as a resting place of two Patriarchs - Jefrem and possibly Sava IV). It has a cross (groin) vault, which was, as some scholars believe, built later.
In 1614 some parts of the building (namely its Northern wall) have been reconstructed.
On the altar screen some sculpture can be seen. The Church was fresco painted in the middle of the 14th century, and renovated in the 17th century. The name of one painter (out of two who painted this Church) has remained inscribed in the apse in Greek lettering.
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Peć, Church of St. Nicholas (Patriarchate of Peć)
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The Church of St. Nicholas is situated in the city of Peć. It was founded by Archbishop Danilo II as a single-nave, vaulted, edifice with a tripartite apse which is rectangular on the outside. It was built of brick and stone.
The original frescoes have not survived. According to the inscription above the inner side of the door we know that the Church was painted in 1673 by Patriarch Makarije, and were done by painter Radul.
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Peć, Church of the Holy Apostles (The Patriarchate of Peć)
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The Church of the Holy Apostles is situated in the city of Peć. It was built by Archbishop Arsenije I in the middle of the 13th century (even though an inscription on one of the frescoes from the 14th century states that St. Sava initiated the construction). In time, as other buildings erected next to this Church, its shape changed so the original appearance of the Holy Apostles cannot be reliably reconstructed.
The Church belongs to the Raška style and was a seat of Archbishopric (after it was moved from the Žiča Monastery) and later raised to the rank of Patriarchate (1346-1766).
The Church was built on the grounds of an older three nave basilica which was reconstructed and modified to a single nave edifice with a dome and an apse with proskomidia and diakonikon. Side naves became chapels. Nave was elongated and suitable for liturgical purposes. Along its Western part there were once chapels (paracclesions) which were demolished in the 14th century. Today it is a space of rectangular base with a semicircular vault.
Similar solutions are to found in Pridvorica and Davidovica.
Along the South wall of the central bay is a sarcophagus which once housed the remains of Archbishop Arsenije I. Another sarcophagus in the South-West corner of the Church kept the relics of Joanikije II, the first patriarch of the Patriarchate in Peć. The tomb of Archbishop Sava II is located between these two sarcophagi, also placed along the South wall.
The Church was fresco decorated in the 13th century. Western part of the Church was decorated in the time of King Milutin, marking the beginning of a new style, that of the 14th century.
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Peć, Church of the Virgin Hodegetria (Patriarchate of Peć)
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The Church of the Virgin Hodegetria is situated in the city of Peć. It was built around 1330, South to the Church of the Holy Apostles (as a counterpart to the Church of St. Demetrius) by Archbishop Danilo II.
It is a developed cross-in-square edifice with octagonal dome. Gothic bifora on its Eastern side was probably added later and matches the same one on its Southern side. In North-Western part of the Church is a sarcophagus of Archbishop Danilo II.
The Church was fresco painted around 1337 (by the time Archbishop Danilo II died) and finished during Archbishop Joanikije.
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Peć, the Patriarchate
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The Patriarchate of Peć is situated in the city of Peć in Kosovo. It was built in the 13th and 14th centuries by Serbian Archbishops, starting Archbishop Arsenije Sremac, St. Sava's successor on the throne of Serbian Church.
It consists of three Churches dedicated to the Holy Apostles, Saint Demetrius and Virgin Hodeghetria. The narthex was added by Archbishop Danilo II around 1330 and served as an ante-Church to the three adjecent temples. Some frescoes of the narthex have remained; they were mostly restored in the 16th century (after the renewal of the Patriarchate).
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