Tvrdoš Monastery

Tvrdoš Monastery

The Monastery
Location within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Monastery information
Full name Тврдош
Order Serbian Orthodox
Established 15th century
Diocese Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina
Site
Location Trebinje, Republika Srpska
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates 42°43′07″N 18°17′48″E / 42.7186°N 18.2967°E / 42.7186; 18.2967

Tvrdoš Monastery (Serbian Cyrillic: Тврдош) is a 15th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery near the city of Trebinje, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 4th-century foundations of the first Roman church on the site are still visible.

Atrium garden of the monastery
The church within monastery

The Orthodox monastery was established there in the 15th century, with a cathedral constructed about 1508 and painted with murals by Vicko Lavrov from Dubrovnik in 1517. The monastery remained a seat of the Metropolitans of Herzegovina until the Venetian Empire destroyed it in 1694. The current building of the monastery was constructed in 1924.

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