Hercegovačka Gračanica | |
Order: | Serbian Orthodox |
Established: | 2000 |
Diocese: | Diocese of Zahumlje and Herzegovina |
Dedication: | Most Holy Theotokos |
People: | Predrag Ristić (architect) |
Location: | Trebinje, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Map Type: | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Coord: | 42.7106°N 18.3597°W |
The Hercegovačka Gračanica Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Херцеговачка Грачаница|Manastir Hercegovačka Gračanica) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Trebinje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Largely a copy of the Gračanica monastery in Kosovo, it was completed in 2000. The monastery is located above the city, on the historic Crkvina Hill, and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.[1] Crkvina Hill has expansive views of Trebinje, with city walls and bridges alongside the Trebišnjica River, and has been a place of pilgrimage throughout the ages. At the current site of Hercegovacka Gračanica once was the church of St. Michael, the medieval endowment of King Milutin.[2]
Hercegovačka Gračanica was built according to the last wish of the prominent poet and diplomat Jovan Dučić (1871-1943), who wanted to be burried on a hill above Trebinje in a church like "one in Kosovo".[3] Dučić's relics were trasferred from Illionis to Hercegovačka Gračanica in 2000.[4]