The king Alexandar Karadjordjević and the monastery Visoki Dečani

• Main Authors: Đurić Mišina Veljko, Crnomarković Miloš P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Serbian Culture Priština, Leposavić 2019-01-01
• Series: Baština
• Subjects: alexandar karadjordjevic; visoki dečani; bells; portrait; plate; hiding place
• Online Access: https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2019/0353-90081947335Q.pdf
• ISSN: 0353-9008; 2683-5797

The king Alexandar Karadjordjevic kept up a special relationships with the monastery Visoki Dečani. However, the saved and available archival material cannot contribute to the complete creation of the image of that relationships so that this text represents just a small contribution of the reconstruction of the same. The charity to this monastery was shown on various ways by the king. In that way, for example, he paid the purchase of monastery bells, in the amount of about 36.000 dinars. As a symbol of the gratitude for all his charities the portrait of the king Alexandar is put in one of monastery rooms. On the other hand, the king used the authority of the ruler to serve himself with some things from the monastery's inventory, as it was the case with the old wealthy gold plated, silver chalice with the aim to make the same chalice for the king's church, and to order the investigation to check the claims that there were monastery's hiding place inside the monastery.