Rakovica monastery, Serbian Orthodox monastery in Belgrade, Serbia.

Rakovica Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox church dedicated to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Belgrade's Rakovica municipality. The church is a single-nave building with a three-conchal base and two domes: a larger one over the central bay of the nave and a smaller one over the narthex. Its exterior has two octagonal towers with dark roof caps and gold crosses, narrow arched windows with red-brown trim, and a large arched opening with a framed panel.

Folk tradition links the monastery to kings Dragutin or Milutin, but the earliest written record is Feliks Petančić's 1502 travel account, which calls it "Ranauicence monasterium". Ottoman census registers mention it in 1560. Destroyed during the Ottoman advance on Vienna in 1592 and the unrest of 1594, it was moved to its present, more sheltered site, where construction of the Church of the Holy Archangel Michael began around 1600.

The name is linked to the village of Rakovica, where the original monastery stood before the monks moved to the present site in the 16th century. A local resident named Raka is said to have rebuilt it in the 15th century, giving the monastery his name. The 1862 iconostasis was financed by Prince Mihailo Obrenović.

The monastery stands at 34 Patrijarha Dimitrija Street, on the eastern slope of Straževica hill in the Rakovički Creek valley, 11 km south of central Belgrade. The grounds lie between the Straževica and Pruževica hills, reached through the Resnik, Sunčani Breg and Miljakovac neighbourhoods. The complex grew in stages from the 15th to the 20th century, so expect uneven ground between the church and the konaks.

The monastery grounds serve as the burial place for Patriarch Pavle and Vasa Čarapić, a commander from the First Serbian Uprising. This connection between religious and national history gives the location deeper meaning for many visitors.