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Манастир Високи Дечани (Serbian)Manastir Visoki Dečani (Serbian)Manastiri i Deçanit (Albanian)
Visoki Dečani Church
Location of Visoki Dečani within Kosovo
Monastery information
Order	Serbian Orthodox
Established	1327–35
Diocese	Eparchy of Raška and Prizren
People
Founder(s)	King Stefan Dečanski
Abbot	Sava Janjić
Important associated figures	Stefan Dečanski, Stefan Dušan
Architecture
Style	Serbo-Byzantine style
Site
Location	Deçan, Kosovo 661 m (2,168.6 ft)
Coordinates	42°32′48.9984″N 20°15′57.999″E / 42.546944000°N 20.26611083°E / 42.546944000; 20.26611083
Public access	yes
Website	https://www.decani.org
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Type	Cultural
Criteria	ii, iii, iv
Designated	2004 (28th session)
Part of	Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
Reference no.	724
Region	Europe and North America
Cultural Heritage of Serbia
Official name	Manastir Dečani
Type	Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance
Designated	1947
Reference no.	SК 1368

The Visoki Dečani Monastery is a medieval Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery located near Deçan, Kosovo. It was founded in the first half of the 14th century by Stefan Dečanski, King of Serbia.

Dečani is by far the largest medieval church in the Balkans and one of the most complex architectural achievements of the 14th century. Its architectural style, which emerged in Kingdom of Serbia at the end of the 12th century, combines Orthodox traditions with Romanesque influences. The monastery reflects the cultural exchange between the East and West, representing Serbia's historical position during the medieval period. The Dečani church contains frescos that show defining moments from both Serbian history and Christian tradition. It also features the largest preserved collection of Byzantine painting. For centuries, Dečani has played a key role in preserving the spiritual, cultural, and national identity of Serbs in Kosovo.

Dečani is often considered to be one of the most endangered European cultural heritage sites. The monastery has been under the legal protection of Serbia since 1947 and is part of the World Heritage list titled "Medieval Monuments in Kosovo", designated as a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance.

History

The construction of the monastery began during the reign of the Serbian King Stefan Dečanski, in 1327. The original founding charter from 1330, also known as the Dečani chrysobull, has been preserved to this day. After his death in 1331, Stefan Dečanski was buried in the still unfinished monastery, the construction of which was continued by his son Stefan Dušan, who became the King of Serbia in the same year. The main architect of the monastery was the Franciscan friar Vito of Kotor. According to Branislav Pantelić, the monastery represents the last phase of the Western, Gothic, Byzantine-Romanuesque architecture and contains Byzantine paintings and numerous Romanseque sculptures, part of a "Palaeologan renaissance".

The construction of the monastery lasted for a total of 8 years and covered an area of 4000 square meters. The outstanding artistic quality of the paintings took 15 years and were done by painters with origins from Serbia, Byzantine and Adriatic coast. The wooden throne of the hegumen (monastery head) was finished at around this time, and the church interior was decorated. Dečanski's carved wooden sarcophagus was finished in 1340. Those who contributed to the construction of the monastery were collectively gifted a village close to the city of Prizren named Manastirica, where many settled following completion. Serbian princess and Bulgarian empress consort Ana-Neda (d. ca. 1350) was buried in the church.

During the Middle Ages, entire Albanian villages were gifted by Serbian kings, particularly Stefan Dušan, as presents to the Serbian monastery of Visoki Dečani, as well as those of Prizren and Tetovo.

15th–19th century

Bulgarian writer Gregory Tsamblak, author of the Life of Stefan Dečanski, was the hegumen (monastery head) at the beginning of the 15th century. The painter-monk Longin spent two decades in the monastery during the second half of the 16th century and created 15 icons with depictions of the Great Feasts and hermits, as well as his most celebrated work, the icon of Stefan Dečanski. In the late 17th century, the Ottomans plundered the monastery, but inflicted no serious damage. In 1819, archimandrite Zaharija Dečanac became Metropolitan of Raška and Prizren.

20th and 21st century

Following the end of the First Balkan War, the monastery fell within the administration of the Kingdom of Montenegro. The then King Nikola I of Montenegro placed much of the surrounding land under the monastery's jurisdiction. During World War I, the monastery's treasures were plundered by the Austro-Hungarian Army, which occupied Serbia between 1915 and 1918. The monastery fell within the territory of the Italian-ruled Albanian Kingdom during World War II, and was targeted for destruction by the Albanian nationalist Balli Kombëtar and Italian fascist blackshirts in mid-1941. The Royal Italian Army responded by sending a group of soldiers to help protect the monastery from attack.

The monastic treasure was exhibited in the rebuilt medieval refectory in 1987. The monastery's monks sheltered refugees of all ethnicities during the Kosovo War, which lasted from March 1998 to June 1999. On 7 May 1998, the corpses of two elderly Albanians were found 400 metres (1,300 ft) from the monastery. They were reportedly killed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) for allegedly collaborating with Serbian forces. The KLA staged an attack not far from the monastery on 8 May, killing one person and wounding four others. That evening, Deçan's 300 remaining Serbs came to the monastery to seek shelter.

Albanian civilians seeking refuge in the monastery returned to their homes following the withdrawal of Serbian military from Kosovo in June 1999. An Italian unit of the Kosovo Force (KFOR) was subsequently assigned to guard the monastery, which was attacked on several occasions. Dozens of Romanis sought sanctuary in the monastery over the next several months, fearing retaliatory attacks by their Albanian neighbours, who accused them of collaborating with the Serbs and looting Albanian homes.

During the violent unrest in Kosovo on 17 March 2004, KFOR defended the monastery from an Albanian mob trying to throw Molotov cocktails at it. Several Albanians were shot and wounded in the clash. On 2 July 2004, the monastery was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). UNESCO cited it as "an irreplaceable treasure, a place where traditions of Romanesque architecture meet artistic patterns of the Byzantine world." The monastery, along with all other Serbian Medieval Monuments in Kosovo, was added to the UNESCO list of endangered World Heritage sites in 2006.

Suspected Kosovo Albanian insurgents hurled hand grenades at the monastery on 30 March 2007, but caused little damage. In recent years, the situation around the monastery has stabilized and it has reopened to visitors. Serbian President Boris Tadić attended a service at the monastery in April 2009. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited the monastery the following month. In the annual International Religious Freedom Report, the State Department wrote that the Deçan municipal officials continued to refuse to implement a 2016 Constitutional Court decision upholding the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling recognizing the monastery’s ownership of approximately 24 hectares of land.

Architecture

Because of the dimensions of the church, which by far surpass the size of all the other medieval Balkan churches, the monastery has been popularly named High Dečani. The church has five-nave naos, a three-part iconostasis, and a three-nave parvise. With the dome, it is 26 m high. Its outer walls are done in alternate layers of white and pink marble. The portals, windows, consoles, and capitals are richly decorated. Christ the Judge is shown surrounded by angels in the western part of the church. Its twenty major cycles of fresco murals represent the largest preserved gallery of Serbian medieval art, featuring over 1000 compositions and several thousand portraits.

Heritage site in danger

Dečani Monastery is one of four World Heritage medieval monuments in Kosovo designated as a heritage site in danger. Since the arrival of KFOR peacekeepers in the region in 1999, attacks on the Monastery have increased. Since 1999 there have been five significant attacks and near miss attacks on the monastery:

• 27 February 2000 – Six grenades hit the Decani Monastery.
• 22 June 2000 – Nine grenades hit the Decani Monastery.
• 17 March 2004 – Seven grenades fell around the monastery walls. This attack formed part of the 2004 unrest in Kosovo.
• 30 March 2007 – One grenade hit the wall behind the church.
• 1 February 2016 – Four armed suspects in a motor vehicle were detained at the gates of the monastery. A search of their car found an assault rifle, pistol, ammunition and extremist Islamist printed material. It is unclear whether there is any connection between the case of Decani and an earlier attack in a mosque in Drenas. Dusan Kozarev, member of government of Serbia had claimed a year earlier that the monastery gates were painted with graffiti that read "ISIS", "Caliphate is coming" and "UÇK".

As of 2023, Dečani Monastery has a 24/7 guard from KFOR. Of the four medieval monuments in Kosovo that are designated as a heritage site in danger, Dečani is the only one with a direct guard from KFOR.

In 2021, Europa Nostra listed Visoki Dečani as one of the seven most endangered cultural heritage sites in Europe.

In popular culture

Visoki Dečani, three episodes of the documentary series "Witnesses of Times" produced by the broadcasting service RTB in 1989 was created by Gordana Babić and Petar Savković, directed by Dragoslav Bokan, music was composed by Zoran Hristić.

See also

• Category:Burials at Visoki Dečani
• Kosovo: A Moment in Civilization
• Tourism in Kosovo
• List of Serbian Orthodox monasteries

References

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Further reading

• Antić, Ivana. Das Kloster Visoki Dečani. Manastir Visoki Dečani, 2008.
• Babić, Gordana (1995). Djurić, Vojislav J. (ed.). "Zidno slikarstvo manastira Decana: grada i studije". Belgrade: SANU. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405142915.
• Đorđević, Života; Pejić, Svetlana, eds. (1999). Cultural Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija. Belgrade: Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the Republic of Serbia. ISBN 9788680879161.
• Ferrari, Silvio; Benzo, Andrea (2014). Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage: Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317175032.
• Grozdanović-Pajić, Miroslava; Stanković, Radoman (1995). "Rukopisne knjige manastira Visoki Dečani: Vodeni znaci i datiranje". Narodna biblioteka Srbije. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Ivić, Pavle, ed. (1995). The History of Serbian Culture. Edgware: Porthill Publishers. ISBN 9781870732314.
• KESIC-RISTIC, Sanja, and Dragan VOJVODIC. "Zidno slikarstvo manastira Decana: grada i studije; La peinture murale du monastère de Decani: matériaux et études; Beograd; Srpska akademija nauka i umjetnosti Menolog." (1995).
• Krstić, Branislav (2003). Saving the Cultural Heritage of Serbia and Europe in Kosovo and Metohia. Belgrade: Coordination Center of the Federal Government and the Government of the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohia. ISBN 9788675560173.
• Marković, Miodrag; Vojvodić, Dragan, eds. (2017). Serbian Artistic Heritage in Kosovo and Metohija: Identity, Significance, Vulnerability. Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
• Pantelić, Bratislav (2002). The Architecture of Dečani and the Role of Archbishop Danilo II. Wiesbaden: Reichert. ISBN 9783895002397.
• Peić, Sava (1994). Medieval Serbian Culture. London: Alpine Fine Arts Collection.
• Petković, Vesna; Peić, Sava (2013). Serbian Medieval Cultural Heritage. Belgrade: Dereta.
• Ristanović, Petar R. "Guestbook of monastery Visoki Decani: 1924–1945: As historical source." Baština 39 (2015): 171–188.
• Šakota, Mirjana (2017). Ottoman Chronicles: Dečani Monastery Archives. Prizren: Diocese of Raška-Prizren.
• Samardžić, Radovan; Duškov, Milan, eds. (1993). Serbs in European Civilization. Belgrade: Nova, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Balkan Studies. ISBN 9788675830153.
• Sindik, N. (2011). Bogdanović, D.; et al. (eds.). "Opis ćirilskih rukopisnih knjiga manastira Visoki Dečani" [Description of Cyrillic Manuscripts From Monastery Visoki Dečani]. Opis Južnoslovenskih ćirilskih Rukopisa. 4. Belgrade: Narodna biblioteka Srbije.
• Subotić, Gojko (1998). Art of Kosovo: The Sacred Land. New York: The Monacelli Press. ISBN 9781580930062.
• Todić, Branislav; Čanak-Medić, Milka (2013). The Dečani Monastery. Belgrade: Museum in Priština. ISBN 9788651916536.
• Živković, Tibor; Bojanin, Stanoje; Petrović, Vladeta, eds. (2000). Selected Charters of Serbian Rulers (XII-XV Century): Relating to the Territory of Kosovo and Metohia. Athens: Center for Studies of Byzantine Civilisation.

External links

• Dečani Monastery- Virtual Tours and Photo Collections of the BLAGO Fund
• Evaluation by the World Heritage Committee

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v t e Serbian Orthodox church buildings Serbia Belgrade Church of Saint Sava St. Michael's Cathedral St. George, Banovo Brdo Ružica St. Mark's Church St. Basil of Ostrog Church of the Ascension Rakovica Monastery Chapel of Saint Petka Holy Apostles Peter and Paul St. Alexander Nevsky Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel (Batajnica) St. Nicholas (Dobanovci) Holy Virgin (Zemun) Vojvodina St. Nicholas (Bačinci) St. John the Baptist (Bačka Palanka) St. George (Banoštor) St. George (Bečej) St. Peter and Paul (Berkasovo) Saint Sava (Čerević) St. Nicholas (Erdevik) St. Elijah (Ilinci) Presentation of the Theotokos (Inđija) Dormition of the Theotokos (Irig) St. Nicholas (Irig) St. Theodore Tiron (Irig) Holy Apostle Luke (Kupinovo) St. George Cathedral (Novi Sad) Assumption of the Theotokos (Pančevo) Transfiguration of the Lord (Ruma) St. Nicholas (Sibač) St. Nicholas (Sivac) St. George (Sombor) Epiphany of the Lord (Srbobran) Nativity of the Theotokos (Sremska Kamenica) Sremski Karlovci 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Nativity of the Theotokos (Novaci) Nativity of Christ (Pirot) Cave Church (Rsovci) St. Petka (Staničenje) Apostles Peter and Paul (Stari Ras) St. John the Baptist (Stevanac) Oplenac (Topola) St. Mark (Užice) Kosovo* (status) Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Belo Polje) St. Stephen (Donje Nerodimlje) St. Paraskeva (Drsnik) St. Nicholas (Đurakovac) Holy Archangels (Gornje Nerodimlje) Virgin Hodegetria (Mušutište) Nativity of the Theotokos (Obilić) Christ the Saviour (Pristina) Holy Saviour (Prizren) Our Lady of Ljeviš (Prizren) St. Elijah (Podujevo) Saint George (Prizren) St. Nicholas (Prizren) St John the Baptist (Samodreža) St. Nicholas (Slovinje) St. Nicholas (Štrpce) St. Uroš (Uroševac) Saint Elijah (Vučitrn) Montenegro St. Jovan Vladimir (Bar) Cetinje Monastery (Cetinje) Court Church (Cetinje) Vlah Church (Cetinje) Holy Savior (Grahovac) Holy Savior (Herceg Novi) St. Luke (Kotor) St. Nicholas (Kotor) Podgorica Cathedral (Podgorica) Morača Ostrog Monastery Savina Monastery Nativity of the Theotokos (Zabrđe) Njegoš's Testament Church Bosnia and Herzegovina Republika Srpska Banja Luka Cathedral (Banja Luka) St. Nikola (Dobrelji) St. Nicholas (Dobrljin) St. Nicholas (Javorani) St. Nicholas (Rijeka) St. Nicholas (Romanovci) St. George (Sopotnica) St. Nicholas (Srđevići) St. Archangel Michael (Veličani) Federation B&H Holy Trinity (Mostar) Nativity of the Theotokos (Mostar) Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel (Sarajevo) Holy Transfiguration (Sarajevo) Nativity of the Theotokos (Sarajevo) Dormition of the Theotokos (Tuzla) Croatia Holy Venerable Mother Parascheva (Banovci) Transfer of the relics of the Holy Father Nicholas (Bijelo Brdo) St. George (Bobota) St. Peter and Paul (Bolman) St. Stephen (Borovo) Ascension of the Lord (Cetina) Presentation of Mary (Čakovci) Dalj Cathedral (Dalj) Saint Archangel Michael (Darda) Nativity of the Theotokos (Drežnica) Holy Annunciation (Dubrovnik) Nativity of the Theotokos (Gaboš) St. George (Grubišno Polje) St. Michael the Archangel (Ilok) St. Nicholas (Jagodnjak) St. Stefan Štiljanović (Karanac) St. Nicholas (Karlovac) St. George (Kneževo) Intercession of the Holy Virgin (Knin) Pentecost (Markušica) St. Nicholas (Mikluševci) St. Nicholas (Mirkovci) St. Panteleimon (Mirkovci) Transfiguration of the Lord (Mohovo) Dormition of the Theotokos (Negoslavci) St. Elijah (Novi Jankovci) St. George (Opatovac) St. Peter and Paul (Orolik) Dormition of the Mother of God (Osijek) Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (Ostrovo) St. Nicholas (Pačetin) St. Spyridon (Peroj) Presentation of Mary (Popovac) St. Nicholas (Rijeka) Saint Parascheva (Slabinja) Nativity of the Theotokos (Srijemske Laze) Transfiguration of the Lord (Šarengrad) Dormition of the Theotokos (Šibenik) Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Štikada) St. Peter and Paul (Tepljuh) St. George (Tovarnik) Transfiguration of the Lord (Trpinja) St. George (Varaždin) Pentecost (Vinkovci) St. Nicholas (Vrlika) St. Nicholas (Vukovar) Serbian Orthodox Cathedral (Zagreb) Hungary Transfer of the Relics of the Holy Father Nicholas (Baja) St. George (Budapest) St. Nicholas (Eger) St. George (Pomáz) St. George (Somberek) John the Baptist (Székesfehérvár) Annunciation Church (Szentendre) Dormition of the Theotokos (Szentendre) Požarevac Church (Szentendre) St. Nicholas (Szeged) Transfiguration Church (Szentendre) Romania St. Peter and St. Paul (Arad) Ascension Cathedral (Timișoara) St. Nicholas (Timișoara) St. George (Timișoara) United Kingdom Holy Prince Lazar (Birmingham) Serbian Orthodox Church (Halifax) St. Nicholas (West Wycombe) United States Sts. Constantine and Helen Serbian Orthodox Church, Galveston Trinity Chapel Complex, Manhattan Saint Sava Church, Jackson, California Saint Sava Church, Merrillville, Indiana Saint Sava Cathedral, Milwaukee Canada Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Hamilton Saint Sava Church, Toronto All Serbian Saints Church, Mississauga Saint Arsenije Sremac Church, Whitby Saint Michael the Archangel Church, Toronto Other countries Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church, Slovenia St. Sava Church, Paris, France Saint Spyridon Church, Trieste, Italy Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Stockholm, Sweden Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Komárno, Slovakia (in care of OCLS) Notes * indicate churches in Kosovo, which is the subject of a territorial dispute between Serbia and Kosovo.
v t e Saints of the Serbian Orthodox Church St. Angelina St. Basil of Ostrog St. Danilo II St. Gavrilo Rajić St. Grigorije the Silent St. Helen of Anjou St. Joanikije St. Jovan Vladimir St. Prince Lazar / St. Princess Milica St. Makarije Sokolović St. Maksim Branković St. Nikodim I St. Nikolaj of Ohrid and Žiča St. Peter of Cetinje St. Sava St. Sava II St. Simeon the Monk St. Simeon the Myrrh-streaming St. Stefan Lazarević St. Stefan Štiljanović St. Stefan Uroš St. Stefan of Dečani St. Stefan the Blind St. Stefan of Piperi St. Teodor Komogovinski St. Vladislav St. Vukašin St. Rafailo of Šišatovac St. Georgije Bogić St. Branko St. Justin of Ćelije St. Hieromartyr Joanikije St. Avakum the Deacon St. Metropolitan Petar of Dabar-Bosna St. Sava of Gornji Karlovac St. Platon of Banja Luka St. Varnava of Hvosno St. Pajsije of Janjevo St. Jakov Novi Tumanski St. Sebastian of Jackson St. Mardarije of Libertyville

• Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)
• Deçan
• Medieval Serbian sites in Kosovo
• Buildings and structures completed in 1327
• 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
• Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Kosovo
• Monuments and memorials in Kosovo
• UFO sightings in Europe
• Burial sites of the Nemanjić dynasty
• Burial sites of the House of Shishman
• Nemanjić dynasty endowments
• Cultural heritage of Kosovo
• Patriarchate of Peć