The Monastery Of Sopochani

( in the vicinity of Novi Pazar )
The Church of the Holy Trinity was founded by King Urosh I, the son of Stefan-the-Fist-Crowned, and was built and painted with frescoes around 1260-1270, in the typical Rashka style.It has a triple nave with a semicircular apse, a low transept, and an eight windowed dome. Sopochani represents the summit of Byzantine monumental fresco-painting and the highest achievement of European painting of that period.

Masterpieces among the frescoes of Sopochani are:

o The Assumption of the Virgin

o The Crusifiction and

o The Death of Queen Ana

o Lik iz kompozicije Poklonjenje Andjelu.

o Kupanje novorodjenog Bogodeteta

o Lik jednog svetog ratnika 

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