... R a v a n i c a M o n a s t e r y ...
... Ravanica ... Built during the 1370s, Ravanica is the main endowment of Prince Lazar, where he was buried following his death in the battle of Kosovo. Since then, Ravanica has been pilgrim's destination and an important center of cultural activities and the Serbian people's assemblies. The Ravanica church is the first monument of the Morava School of the Serbian medieval art. Its ground plan has the form of an enlarged trefoil with a nine-sided dome in the middle and four smaller octagonal domes above the corner bays. There are 62 windows. The church was built in alternate courses of single-line stone and three-line brick. Valuable ceramic decoration makes use of geometric patterns, floral motifs, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic shapes. The frescoes were not all painted at the same time and by the same artists, though they are mostly dated between 1385 and 1387.
