Kalenic

Fifty five kilometres away from Krusevac toward Trstenik, one of the most beautiful an best preserved churches in the architecture group of Morava. Kalenic is also decorated by the paintings of a great style in the Byzantine tradition. The monastery had been constructed 1415 by Bogdan, one of the courtiers of Despot Stefan Lazarevic. Abandoned in the XVII century, the monastery had been restored by Prince Milos Obrenovic 1823.

From outside the church has been decorated by the nice sculptures distributed within the frameworks of the windows, of the doors an of the arcs. They have been done in a slight relief as if it would be a sculpture in wood. The alternation of brick and stone, another Byzantine tradition, contributes to the decoration of this holy place. The true scenes decorate the windows: hunting at the court, Samson’s struggle against immortality. The paintings are well enough preserved. On the wall in the North from narthex a composition representing the founder Bogdan, his wife Milica and before them Despot Stefan Lazarevic. In the choir of the aisle on the columns have been represented Archangels Gabriel and Michael. In the East abside in the superior zone there has been represented the cycle of the miracles of Christ. Finally, notice the portraits of the Saint Warriors in the lower part of the South an North absides.