Voljavča Monastery, Serbian Orthodox monastery in Stragari, Serbia.

Voljavča Monastery is a monastic complex set in dense forest near Voljavča creek on the northeastern slope of Rudnik mountain. The church within is dedicated to Saints Michael and Gabriel and serves as the center of the complex.

The monastery church, dedicated to Saints Michael and Gabriel, was rebuilt at the beginning of the 15th century on the ruins of an older church from 1050, as an endowment of Mihailo Končinović, a nobleman of Despot Stefan Lazarević. Turkish defters record it in the Smederevo sanjak in 1516, and a typikon was written in 1607 under hegumen Zaharija. Turks looted and burned it in 1789, and in 1805 the Governing Council of Serbia met in its 1765 konak.

The monastery church is dedicated to Saints Michael and Gabriel. In 2014 and 2015, professors and students of the Faculty of Applied Arts repainted the interior after earlier damage had destroyed the painted decoration known to have existed in the 17th century. The ground floor of the 1765 konak holds a permanent ethnological display by the National Museum in Kragujevac on everyday life in the early 19th century.

The monastery can be reached at Stragari bb, 34323 Stragari and is open to visits. It is best to arrange your visit in advance before traveling to the site.

The konak built in 1765, among the oldest in Serbia, housed the seat of the Praviteljstvujušči sovjet, the first Karađorđe government headed by Matija Nenadović, in 1805. Two hundred years after that first session, the Serbian government held a ceremonial sitting in the same room, and an ethnographic exhibition on the konak's ground floor now presents everyday life of the early 19th century.