Čajniče Monastery
Čajniče, Bosnia and Herzegovina · built 1863
The Čajniče Monastery with its Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother of God (Serbian, Crkva uspenja presvete bogorodice) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Čajniče, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska. There are, actually, two churches side by side, the new and the old one. The old church dates from the end of the 16th possibly beginning of the 17th century, and the new one was built in 1857. The church is known for the miraculous icon of the Holy Virgin. This is the only extant example of icon painting in Bosnia dating from pre-Ottoman times. It is the processional icon of the Virgin and Child painted on one side, and of St. John the Baptist on the other. Popularly known as the Čajniče Beauty and deemed miraculous, the icon comes from the Church of the Assumption, a traditional place of pilgrimage. It is the work of a Byzantine artist painted in the first half of the fourteenth century, or as historians estimate, around 1329–1330.
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