Vujan Monastery, Orthodox monastery in Prislonica, Serbia

Vujan Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Prislonica, on the wooded slopes of Mount Vujan between Gornji Milanovac and Čačak. Its church is a single-nave building with a semicircular apse and a narthex, above which rises a tall square bell tower with a clock face and a pyramidal roof. A wooden porch stands outside, and a decorative frieze of blind arcades runs under the roof cornice.

Monks from Mount Athos settled the Ovčar-Kablar gorge in the early 14th century, under King Milutin, and founded Obrovin Monastery about 1.5 km from the present site; it hosted popular assemblies until Ottoman forces under Sinan Pasha devastated it in 1597. The ruined monastery was rebuilt in 1805 by Nikola Milićević Lunjevica and Milan Obrenović, with an inscription above the west door recording the work of priest Radisav Milošević of Prislonica. The church of St. Archangel Michael was built in 1805, and the konak was rebuilt in 1937 by hieromonk Nikolaj Lazović.

The monastery's slava is the Synaxis of Saint Archangel Gabriel. Its name comes from the old Serbian word for the howling of wind heard on Mount Vujan. The 1808 iconostasis by Stojan and Jeremija Mihajlović was moved to the Church of the Holy Mother of God in Gornja Trepča; the present frescoes were painted in 1939 and 1943.

The monastery lies in the village of Prislonica, roughly midway on the road between Gornji Milanovac and Čačak, on the wooded slope below the summit of Mount Vujan. The church is entered through an open wooden porch, with the narthex and its high bell tower beyond. The monastery's patron feast is the Synaxis of Saint Archangel Gabriel.

In the narthex, by the south wall, lie the relics of the "Vujan saint"; ten years later, in 1815, the body of voivode Lazar Mutap was laid beside them. Mutap, a hero of both Serbian uprisings, was fatally wounded near Čačak and sent his banner to the monastery, where he was buried.