the third order. Hieromonk Joakim Milošević lived in it at the time. During the First World War, Austro-Hungarian forces raided and destroyed the monastery on several occasions, during 1915 and 1916. In the interwar period, the monastery buildings were built under the direction of elder Domentijan Zdravković. The monastery suffered new destruction during the Second World War, when the Bulgarian occupation forces set fire to and destroyed part of the monastery complex. After the end of the war, a new hostel was built, and since 1961 it has been functioning as a women's monastery. Architecture and interior The monastery church has a single nave foundation with a semicircular altar apse to the east, a narthex and a wooden exonarthex in the form of a porch to the west, and an eight-sided dome rising above the nave. The model for its construction is the church of Saint Achille, and it is similar to the monastery churches in Pridvorica, Morača and Sveta Trojica on Ovčar. The original painting in its interior was destroyed in 1688, when the church was burned down, and the frescoes that can be found in its interior today are the work of the academic painter Jaroslav Kratina and were created in 1952. He added figures from Serbian folklore to classic Christian motifs. Kratina also added personalities from Serbian epic poetry, such as the Kosovo Maiden, Majka Jugović, Vojvoda Rajko and others. The iconostasis in the church consists of 42 icons and is the work of Dimitrije Posniković, who made it in 1867. He incorporated 31 icons painted in Odessa and 11 painted by himself. References Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia Medieval sites in Serbia Medieval Serbian Orthodox monasteries Christian monasteries established in the 13th century