Monastery of Saint Archangel Gabriel, Serbian Orthodox monastery in Zemun, Serbia
The Monastery of Saint Archangel Gabriel is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Zemun, Serbia. Its church, built in 1786, is a Baroque structure with a double-cross plan, a semicircular apse and a two-storey bell tower whose upper level was added in 1840. The nave has a shallow barrel vault, and the iconostasis was painted by Zemun artists Dimitrije Bratoglić and Konstantin Lekić.
The church was built in 1786 on the site of an earlier religious structure. The complex only received its official status as a monastery in 1990, after spending many decades serving other purposes.
The church was founded in 1786 by the Zemun merchant Teodor–Toša Apostolović as the Kontumac chapel of Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel, serving Orthodox travellers held in quarantine. After the quarantine was dismantled in 1842 it lost its role, was used as a Russian church after the 1920s, and became a women's monastery of Saint Archangel Gabriel in 1990. The iconostasis was painted by Zemun artists Dimitrije Bratoglić and Konstantin Lekić.
The monastery is open during the day and can be visited either for a short stop or to attend a service. As this is an active place of worship, modest clothing is expected and quiet behavior inside the church is appreciated.
The church was used as a weapons cache before 1981, when jeromonah Filaret took over the abandoned building and renovated it. In 1990 he obtained a permit to build a 3,000 m² cathedral on the site, but the newly elected Patriarch Pavle declined the plan the following year.
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