Vaznesenje Monastery, Orthodox monastery in Međuvršje, Serbia

Vaznesenje Monastery stands on the southern slopes of Mount Ovčar in the Ovčar-Kablar Gorge near Ovčar Banja, in the Čačak municipality. Its church, dedicated to the Ascension of the Lord, is a simple single-nave building with its entrance on the north side. The present structure was built in the 1930s on the ruins of an older monastery.

Believed to have been built in the 12th or 13th century, the monastery lay in ruins until 1937, when Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović of Žiča restored the church. The French sources state that the present building was erected in the 1930s on the ruins of an older monastery from the 16th century, of which marble rosettes and floral ornaments were found. A richly illuminated Four Gospels was copied here in 1570.

The monastery's slava is the Ascension of the Lord, celebrated on the fortieth day after Easter. A scriptorium once operated here, and in 1570 a richly illuminated Four Gospels was copied at Vaznesenje. The archimandrite Timotej (Milivojević) serves as iguman, and the Divine Liturgy is held daily.

The monastery lies near the main road through the Ovčar-Kablar Gorge, close to Ovčar Banja in the Čačak municipality. The church is a simple single-nave building whose entrance is on the north side. The monastery is active: the Divine Liturgy is served daily, and the superior is Archimandrite Timotej (Milivojević).

The monastery preserves a Gospel book copied in 1570, when a scriptorium here produced an illuminated four-Gospel manuscript. The present church, however, dates from the 1930s: Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović rebuilt it on the ruins of a 16th-century monastery, where marble rosettes and floral ornaments were found.