Glogovac Monastery

The Glogovac Monastery is a 19th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery located at the village of Babići near Šipovo in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dedicated to Saint George, it is the only monastery in this area.

Founding and first reconstruction

The monastery was built in a narrow gorge of the small Glogovac River in 1886. It was burned down during World War II and restored in the 1960s. According to one of the stories, enslaved Serbs asked the List of sultans of the [Ottoman Empire|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire] to allow them to re-build this holy place. Permission was granted on the condition that church bells were not heard. For this reason, the monastery was built between steep hills.

Reconstruction

Glogovac is the spiritual focal point for this area. Seventy-five years after the monastery was re-built, it was destroyed again. This time it was done by the Ustaše and this happened on October 14, 1944. Around 1960, the monastery was sufficiently re-built to be used as a parish church. In 1999, complete reconstruction was started and it was finished in 2005. Left of the main building, work on building St. George's camp has started. Another project underway is the finishing of a building for pilgrims.