Zavala Monastery

The Zavala Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Завала, romanized: Manastir Zavala) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the village of Zavala on the southwestern edge of Popovo Polje, in Ravno, Bosnia and Herzegovina municipality, in southernmost part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Location and history[]

Zavala Monastery

Some 55 kilometers to the east lies the town of Trebinje. The monastery is dedicated to the Presentation of Mary. The northern wall of the monastery's church is situated within a cave. This monastery is also known as a place where Basil of Ostrog entered into monasticism.

Along with Žitomislić and Tvrdoš, Zavala is one of the most important monasteries in East Herzegovina. The first written record of the monastery dates back to sixteenth century. During the Second World War, the monastery suffered major damage, and in the Bosnian War it was further damaged and abandoned.

Zavala and Vjetrenica[]

After the war the monastery was restored, and together with Zavala village with its old architecture and stone masonry, and Vjetrenica cave constitute cultural-historic, architectural and natural assemble, protected by KONS as an important national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because of its importance as national heritage, as well as tourist and ambiental attraction, site is also placed on the UNESCO Tentative list for inscription into UNESCO World Heritage site list.^[1][2]

See also[]

• Popovo Polje
• Vjetrenica
• Trebišnjica
• Ravno

References[]

Further reading[]

• Туристичка организација Републике Српске: Манастир Завала (National Tourist Organization of Serbian Republic: Zavala Monastery) (in Serbian)
• Туризам Републике Српске: Манастир Завала (Serbian Republic Tourism) (in Serbian)
• Епархија захумско-херцеговачка: Манастир Завала (Diocese of Zahumlje-Herzegovina: Zavala Monastery) (in Serbian)

External links[]

Media related to Zavala monastery at Wikimedia Commons

show This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Serbian. (September 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Serbian article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 375 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Serbian Wikipedia article at [[:sr:Манастир Завала]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|sr|Манастир Завала}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Coordinates: 42°51′00″N 17°58′48″E / 42.850°N 17.980°E / 42.850; 17.980