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St. NICHOLAS CHURCH
Experts are afraid that the church may be seriously endangered.
Church from the southeast 1331
| The small church of the landlord Dragoslav Tutic (Nicholas as a monk) and his wife Bela is located in the center of the present-day Prizren. According to the stone inscription, preserved only in fragments but of known contents on the basis of the transcript from the 19th century, it was built in 1331/1332. Subsequently, it became a metochion of the Decani Monastery. The one-nave church is of small dimensions, surmounted by the dome of octangular drum with windows. A semi-circular apse with two semi-circular niches for prothesis and diakonikon is on the eastern side. It was built simply with stone and brick. Not many paintings are preserved. According to the subjects, arrangement and style, fresco paintings are related to those from the first phase of the church of St. Savior and in the church of St. George at Rechani, hence it is believed that one workshop painted all three shrines. The same painters are considered to have painted two icons - Virgin Hodegetria from the iconostasis of the Virgin Ljeviska (in the Prizren Cathedral ) and the dual Ljubizda icon with the Annunciation and the Meeting between Ioakim and Anne (in the National Museum in Belgrade). Conservation and restoration works on architecture and paintings were carried out in the period between 1967 and 1970 when the entire dome underwent restoration. |