{"id":10021,"date":"2024-02-21T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taradrina.com\/turisticka-ponuda\/raca-monastery\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:35:38","slug":"raca-monastery","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/taradrina.com\/en\/turisticka-ponuda\/raca-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ra\u010da Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"

RA\u010cA MONASTERY<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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The monastery is located six kilometers from Bajina Ba\u0161ta and is considered to be the endowment of King Dragutin Nemanji\u0107 from the 13th . century. Only the foundations of his imperial monastery settlement remained after the Turkish conquests of the 15th century. It is one of the most significant places in the Serbian history. Of particular importance was the Ra\u010dan copyist school, and after the destruction of the monastery and the great migration of Serbs in 1690, the people of Ra\u010dan created the basis of the Serbian alphabet and literature in the new century in Saint Andreja.<\/p>\n

A hundred years later, the Trono\u0161a brotherhood raised the monastery from the ruins, only to be set on fire again at the end of the first Serbian uprising. The present appearance of the monastery originates from 1836. During the Second World War, Miroslav’s Gospel, the oldest Serbian book written in the 12th century, was hidden here from the Germans . Part of the holy relics of King Dragutin are located in this holy place.<\/p>\n

A two-kilometer-long marked hiking trail leads from the Ra\u010da Monastery to the Ladjevac spring and the remains of the Ra\u010da Transcription School. The road leads along the bank of the Ra\u010da river. There are benches and tables with canopies on both sides of the river at rest areas. After about forty minute hike, you will reach the waterfalls of the Ladjevac hot spring. In the vicinity of Ladjevac are the remains of the Ra\u010da Transcription School. Further overcoming the path that leads to the viewpoint Crnjeskovo is much more difficult. Local Tara National Park guides can be of great help.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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RA\u010cA TRANSCRIPTION SCHOOL<\/h4>\n<\/div>
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The history of Serbian literature is the largest part of creativity in the 17th and first decades of the 18th century by the term “Ra\u010da Transcription School”
The Turkish travel writer and dervish Zulih, better known as Evliya \u00c7elebi, wrote in 1630. that the scriptorium had 300 monks-scribes, who were served by 400 shepherds, blacksmiths, housekeepers and other servants. There were 200 guards in the security.<\/p>\n

The Ra\u010da Transcription School was located about a 40-minute walk along the Ra\u010da river, near the Ladjevac spring. in the 17th century Ra\u010dan monks-scribes called this place “Banja” (Spa) because the water temperature is 17 \u00b0C all year round. Nearby Ladjevac, which was very difficult to access until the construction of the footpath, there is a hermitage dedicated to Saint George. The remains of the medieval scriptoria still exist and are in the research phase.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The First Serbian uprising<\/h2><\/div>
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The monastery was reconstructed in 1795. by Had\u017ei Milentije Stefanovi\u0107 (1766-1824). Prior Hadzi Milentije was one of the leaders in the First Serbian Uprising against the Turks and was very successful in liberating Uzice. Hadji Milentije banner from 1807. is still kept in the monastery.<\/p>\n

The monastery was burned down in 1813. by Memis aga ajan Srebrenicki.<\/p>\n

The monastery was rebuilt in 1818. where Knyaz Milos Obrenovic provided significant help.<\/div>

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Second World War<\/h2><\/div>
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Miroslav’s Gospel, the largest and most important document of Serbian literature from the 12th century, was kept in Ra\u010da during the Second World War . During World War II, Prior Platon Milojevi\u0107 preserved it under the stone slabs in the altar of the church, and this saved it from the Bulgarian punitive expedition that burned all monastery objects in 1943.<\/p>\n

It is said that King Petar II Kara\u0111or\u0111evi\u0107 spent the night in it during his retreat from Belgrade in 1941.<\/div>

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MIGRATION<\/h4>\n<\/div>
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Since the Serbs were in the war between Austria and Turkey in 1683-1699. and participated on the Austrian side and after the Austrian defeat at Ka\u010danik, they began to move to the north. During the great migration under Patriarch Arsenije \u010carnojevi\u0107 (1690), many monks from the Ra\u010da monastery even reached St. Andrea near Budapest. And thanks to them, Saint Andrea soon became the cultural center of Serbs in Hungary.<\/p>\n

After some time, these monks retreated south to the Beo\u010din monastery near Sremska Mitrovica at the foot of Fru\u0161ka Gora. Even in this monastery, the monks continued to copy church books. Among these monks, the following stood out in particular:<\/p>\n