Vranjina Monastery
| Vranjina Monastery Манастир Врањина |
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| Basic information | |
| Location | Vranjina island on Skadar Lake |
| Geographic coordinates | 42°16′14″N 19°08′42″E / 42.2706°N 19.1450°ECoordinates: 42°16′14″N 19°08′42″E / 42.2706°N 19.1450°E |
| Affiliation | Serbian Orthodox Church |
| Territory | Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral |
| Country | Montenegro |
| Architectural description | |
| Founder | Saint Sava or Ilarion Šišojević |
| Completed | 1221—1223 |
Vranjina Monastery or Vranina Monastery (Serbian Cyrillic: Манастир Врањина) or St. Nicholas' Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on south-east part of Vranjina island on Skadar Lake in Montenegro. Vranjina Monastery with its church dedicated to Saint Nicholas is one of the oldest monasteries in Montenegro.
Based on the 1233 chrysobull of Rastko Nemanjić (Saint Sava), the oldest document mentioning this monastery, it can be concluded that it was founded between 1221 and 1223 by Sava, the first archbishop of the Serbian Church, or by Ilarion Šišojević, the first metropolitan bishop of the Metropolitanate of Zeta. According to some accounts, Ilarion was buried in the courtyard of the monastery.
The monastic was initially formed by land and income granted to the monastery by members of the Nemanjić dynasty, who gave the richest donations to the monastery. Saint Sava granted some land of the Holy Savior metochion on Plavnica to Vranjina, while King Stefan Vladislav granted the Crmnica villages of Godinje, Medveđa Glava and Kruševica to the monastery, and queen Helen of Anjou granted it land around Krnjica and Uljanik in Kruševica in 1280. Around 1296 King Stefan Milutin granted the village of Orahovo and 100 perpers of income from the Sveti Srdj market near Skadar to the monastery. Vranjina soon became famous for its richness. In 1348, Emperor Stefan Dušan awarded the monastery together with half of its income to the church in Jerusalem dedicated to Archangel Michael (believed to be founded by King Milutin). That way Vranjina became a metochion of the Church of Archangel Michael in Jerusalem.
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