Matejče Monastery
Matejče, North Macedonia
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
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Matejče Monastery, a 14th-century Orthodox monastery in the village of Matejče on the slopes of Skopska Crna Gora near Skopje and North Macedonia, was built atop the ruins of an earlier Byzantine Greek church dating to 1057–59. First documented in 1300 under Serbian king Stefan Milutin, the monastery underwent significant reconstruction during the reign of emperor Stefan Dušan, with work completed by his son Stefan Uroš V in 1357, making it his endowment. The building follows a cross-in-square architectural plan and employs the exonarthex dome technique found at Hilandar; its interior was painted in 1356–57. The monastery deteriorated after Ottoman forces removed its roof in the 18th century to install on the Eski Mosque in Kumanovo, though it was renovated in 1926–34. During the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia, the monastery was occupied and used as a military base, resulting in theft and burning of its interior contents, though the exterior structure remained standing.
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- Type
- monastery
- Heritage
- heritage site in North Macedonia
- Place
- Matejče, North Macedonia
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