MALA REMETA MONASTERY

Only three kilometers away from the Jazak monastery, in the central part of southern slopes of Fruska Gora, is the Serbian Orthodox monastery Mala Remeta. Next to the monastery is a small village Mala Remeta, which was once a monastery holding. The monastery is not a closed entity, but consists of a church and a dormitory on the south side.
The church is dedicated to the celebration of the Holy Virgin. About the name of the monastery there are several hypotheses, but none confirmed by either archaeological finds or source documents. The monastery is mentioned in Turkish documents during the XVI and XVII century, and at the end of the seventeenth century the permission of Serbian Patriarch Arsenius III Čarnojevica for the monks who fled from Rača Monastery on the Drina to restore the monastery as property of the monastery Beočin was noted. The church that exists today, was started in 1739. The founder was a certain Stanko Milinković from the nearby village of Šuljam. It was built slowly, over more than two decades. It was built by craftsmen who built the church of the monastery Kovilj (Teodor Kosta and Nikola Krapić).
The church has a single nave with a rectangular, projecting choir and a semicircular apse, pentagonal outside. In front of the nave is a narthex, with which it is connected by three openings in the partition wall. All vaults are barrel and made of brick, just in different ways depending on the side walls. The entrances to the church are from the west, through the narthex, and the south, in the west transept. The exterior of the church is decorative, although based on simple elements. The walls are made of cut stones of various sizes, unusual gray-blue tones, with very prominent, wide joints. A partition cornice was placed slightly below the mid-height of the walls. Below the attic cornice are two-level segments of blind arcades, supported on flat vertical elements, like the unfinished pilasters, which descend to the upper edge of the window frames, which are designed as double windows, four along the side walls and choir. All decorative elements, entrances, windows, partition cornice and blind arcades were made of stone with no moldings. Choirs have height equal to the height of the nave, giving a cruciform shape to the building. The roof, originally from shingles, today is painted galvanized steel. In the roof structure, which corresponds to the concept of medieval churches of the Raška style group formed after the church of the Banjska monastery, is inserted a nine-sided drum, which is covered by a nine-sided pyramidal cupola. The drum is slightly slanted towards the top.
The baroque iconostasis was made by the Novi Sad carpenter and woodcarver Petar Ošapović and icons painted by Janko Halkozović in 1757-59. The murals were painted by Kosta Vanđelović 1910, student and associate of Uroš Predic.
The monastic quarters were originally, in the mid-eighteenth century, located on the north and south side of the church, but in the renovation at the end of the nineteenth century, just the south dormitory was preserved. The only dormitory was burned in 1942 but was rebuilt as a replica, based on research and technical documents stored. The dormitory has a basement, ground floor and first floor in two different widths. The external architecture is very simple. The walls are completely smooth, with a series of windows that are placed on the same vertical axis. The roof is high, four-sided, with very short side pieces. In order to visualize the boundaries of the monastery as a whole, a low stone fence was raised on the eastern, northern and western sides.