📍 Cetinje Monastery (Цетињски манастир)
📅 Founded: 1484 (rebuilt in the 18th century)
👤 Founder: Prince Ivan Crnojević
🏛️ Architecture: Traditional Montenegrin stone monastery with defensive elements, arched passages, and a historic bell tower
📍 Location: Cetinje, Montenegro
🌍 Coordinates: 42.3908° N, 18.9236° E
🏆 Historical Significance: The spiritual heart of Montenegro and the seat of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral
✝️ Religious Significance: Houses the Hand of St. John the Baptist, a relic of St. Peter of Cetinje, and a fragment of the True Cross
🏗️ Renovations: Destroyed by the Ottomans in 1692, rebuilt by Prince Danilo I in 1701
📜 Historical Note: A key center for Montenegrin independence movements and a symbol of national identity
🖼️ Image credits
Koroner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
На стијени где орлови лете,
Манастир стражи векове свете.
Кроз буре, ратове, пламен јак,
Вера је светлила – зрак по зрак.
У њему рука Јована блиста,
Света реликвија, небеска чиста.
Црна Гора срцем ту куца,
У молитви што некад и сад звуца