Church of St. Michael, Štip

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Church of St Michael (Macedonian Cyrillic: Свети Архангел Михаил), also called Fitija (Фитија) is the most valuable medieval monument of Štip, North Macedonia.

The church was built as the central feature of a monastery in 1332. Its endower was protosebastos Hrelja, a nobleman of Serbian kingdom that ruled Štip since 1282. It is located next to the road linking the suburb with the castle Isar. In 1334 Hrelja, with consent of king Stefan Dušan, donated the church to Chilandar, the Serbian monastery in Holy Mount Athos. The donation was confirmed in 1381 by the new lord of Štip Konstantin Dejanović with a charter.

In Ottoman times the church was turned into a mosque and lost its frescoes.

St Michael has a cross-in-rectangle base with a dome above it. The outer decoration shows all the signs of fine Byzantine architecture with facades in layers of bricks and stone.

Today the church is just a chapel (paraklis). Until recently it had an old iconostasis with icons by Georgi Zoografski but in 2000 it got a new, marble one, painted by Pero of Skopje.

References

М. Благојевић, Србија у доба Немањића, Београд 1989, стр. 184, 202
Blago na putevima Jugoslavije, Beograd 1983, str. 573
К. Н. Костић, Наши нови градови на Југу, Београд 1922, стр. 106
Родителска категорија: Храмови (2010-01-15). "Параклис "Свети Архангел Михаил" (Фитијата) – Штип". Bregalnickaeparhija.org.mk. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2016-11-14.

Macedonian Orthodox church buildings

North Macedonia

Skopje & Kumanovo and Osogovo	St. Nicetas (Banjane) St. Dimitrija (Bajlovce) St. George (Beljakovce) St. Nicholas (Beljakovce) Saint Panteleimon (Gorno Nerezi) St. George's (Kumanovo) St. Archangel Michael (Kumanovo) Holy Trinity (Kumanovo) Resurrection of Christ (Kumanovo) St. Mina (Kumanovo) St. Nicholas (Kumanovo) St. Petka (Kumanovo) Ascension of Jesus (Skopje) St. Clement of Ohrid (Skopje) Nativity of the Theotokos (Skopje) St. George (Staro Nagoričane) St. George (Tromegja)
Bregalnica & Strumica	St. Michael (Štip)
Povardarie & Prespa and Pelagonia	Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Bitola) Saint Nedela (Bitola) Saints Peter and Paul (Smilevo)
Tetovo and Gostivar & Debar and Kičevo	St Nicholas (Mavrovo) St. John at Kaneo (Ohrid) Saints Clement and Panteleimon (Plaošnik) St. Barbara and St. Sava (Vevčani) Ascension of Christ (Vevčani) St. Demetrius (Vevčani) St. George (Vevčani) St. Kyriaki (Vevčani) Mid-Pentecost (Vevčani) St. Nicholas (Vevčani) St. Paraskevi the Venerable (Vevčani) Dormition of the Theotokos (Vevčani)

North America

St. Nedela (Ajax)
Sts. Cyril & Methody (Blasdell)
St. Mary (Cambridge)
St. Naum of Ohrid (Hamilton)
St. Dimitrija Solunski (Markham)
St. Ilija (Mississauga)
Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Sterling Heights)
Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Reynoldsburg)
St. Clement of Ohrid (Toronto)
St. Nicholas (Windsor)

Elsewhere

St. George & St. Mary Mother of God (Epping)
St George (Fitzroy)
St. Prophet Ilija (Footscray)
St. John the Baptist (Geelong)
St. Petka (Mill Park)
St. Nikola (Preston)
St. Dimitrija Solunski (Springvale)
Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Sydenham)

41°44′20″N 22°11′17″E / 41.7389°N 22.1881°E / 41.7389; 22.1881

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