The Dajbabe Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Дајбабе, romanized: Manastir Dajbabe) is a Serbian Orthodox Christian Monastery in Podgorica, Montenegro. It is located in a cave on Dajbabe hill (Dajbabska gora), which raises above Zeta valley (Zetska ravnica). The Dajbabe Monastery was dedicated to Uspenje Bogorodice or the Assumption of Mary, the monastery was founded in 1897. In the beginning, only the space of the cave was used as a sanctuary, with the plan to be expanded later with chapels. The visible part of the church is situated outside the cave, depicting a spacious entrance porch with two belfries. The Dajbabe Monastery also possesses a reliquary with the relics of St. Simeon Dajbabe.[1]
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edit- ^ Dajbabe monastery on the official website of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral of Serbian Orthodox Church
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