Korisa: MRA-SRB-Kor001

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Historical note about the site/monument: The Peter Korisky monastery is the burial of the ascetic monk and it is in near the village of Korisa, in the Serbian Kosovo, in the southern Serbia. Hilandar Gregory builted the place in the 13^th century and consisted in a cave church excavated in the stone, basing on a natural recess. In the 14^th century, the church was offered to the Emperor Dusan as the temporary seat of the Metropolitan. There are also traces of mural paintings applied as a decoration to the environment, probably realized as frescoes and that were realized approximately in 1220. These representations feature scenes of the life of the saint monk in his typical iconography. Less than one century after, a church was built in the plateau outside the complex, but nothing is left. The whole region of Prizren was occupied by Turks in 1453; therefore, the monastic community fled and took the relics of the saint with them in Crna Reka Monastery in 1572. The place suffered several attacks: the Turkish in 1885, the raids of the First Balkan War (1912-1913) and of the World War II (1939), to be finally erased from the Albanians (1941). Archeological excavations and architectural conservation works were carried out in 1961.

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