Studenice monastery, Dominican monastery in Studenice, Slovenia.

Studenice monastery is a former Dominican convent in the village of Studenice, Municipality of Poljčane. Its Romanesque church, now the parish church, has a Baroque tower and a Baroque interior from the 18th century; two columns flank the entrance, and Roman-era tombstones are set into the walls. The south and east wings were demolished after a 1788 fire.

Zofija Rogaška founded a hospice at Studenice before 1237, and by 1245 she and her sister Rikarda Kumperška had established a women's monastery there with the consent of the Patriarch of Aquileia, Bertold of Andechs. The monastery was renamed Fons Gracie by 1249 and joined the Dominican order in 1287. Turkish raids after 1468 devastated its estates, and in 1487 the church was reconsecrated after desecration. Emperor Joseph II dissolved the monastery on 8 March 1782, when 16 nuns and three novices lived there.

The nuns came mainly from noble families, and from the 17th century the community split between daughters of Inner Austrian houses and those of Hungarian-Croatian nobility brought in by Countess Uršula Patačić. The monastery church, spared from demolition after the 1782 dissolution because no parish stood nearby, remains the parish church; its main altar by Janez Gregor Božič (1718) shows the Adoration of the Magi.

The monastery stands in the village of Studenice, in the Municipality of Poljčane. The monastic church serves as the seat of the local parish, so the complex is reached from the village centre. The church interior is mainly Baroque from the 18th century, while the Romanesque entrance is flanked by two colonnettes worth looking at closely.

The monastery church kept its function after the 1782 dissolution because no parish existed nearby, so it escaped the demolition that befell many monastic churches. Its walls hold Roman-era tombstones and the sarcophagus of the martyr Saint Fidelis, brought from the catacombs in Rome.