Čajniče Monastery

The Monastery of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin (Serbian: Манастир Успења Пресвете Богородице Чајничке) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Čajniče, Republika Srpska. There are two churches side by side, the new and the old one. The old church dates from 15th century, and the new one was built in 1857. The church is known for the miraculous icon of the Holy Virgin.^[1] This is the only extant example of icon painting in Bosnia dating from pre-Ottoman times is the processional icon 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 Dormition in Čajniče, a traditional place of pilgrimage. It is the work of a Byzantine artist in the first half of the fourteenth century. Historians believe that this icon was painted around 1329-1330.^[2]

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