Monastère de Zaova, Orthodox monastery in Toponica, Serbia

The monastery is an Orthodox sanctuary in Toponica with a church built from tuff stone. It features a single nave with a semicircular apse and blind arcades on the exterior walls, while a bell tower completes the religious complex.

Zaova is first documented in an Ottoman record of 1467, though tradition holds it was founded in the second half of the 14th century under Prince Lazar. The church, dedicated to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, was built in the Morava style on an inscribed cross plan without a dome. It was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, most recently under Miloš Obrenović, and the tall bell tower south of the church dates from the 1930s.

The frescoes and religious images were created by the artist Živko Pavlović in 1849. Some of these early artworks and the icon screen were later moved to the episcopal palace in Požarevac, where visitors can see parts of the original decoration today.

The monastery lies in the hamlet of Toponica, in the Malo Crniće municipality, just off the Požarevac–Petrovac na Mlavi road. The church stands south of a tall bell tower added in the 1930s. Two springs near the monastery are held by locals to be healing, and the church contains a walled grave attributed to Jelica.

In the church stands a built-in tomb held to be Jelica's, and above it a fresco shows four white horses pulling her body in four directions. The legend, sung in the folk poem "Bog nikome dužan ne ostaje", explains the monastery's founding: her brothers Pavle and Radul tied her to four horses after a false accusation, then built the church where her body fell once they learned the truth.