Monastery of St. Pantheleimon, Nerezi
See some details of the iconostasis in the church.
See the ceremonial door of the church's iconostasis.
The monastery is located in the village of Gorno Nerezi, in the vicinity of Skopje. It was built on an ancient Roman cult site. The present church was built by the peer Aleksij Komnen in 1164. In 1300, King Milutin converted it into an appendage of the monastery St. Giorgi. In the disastrous 1553/1555 earthquake the monastery was destroyed, to be reconstructed and fresco painted immediately after that. In 1671 it was referred to in a monastery records. In 1672 Filip from Gorno Vodno endowed it a Posen triod (manuscript). The author of the records was Anastasij, and the manual was kept in the old collection of the National Library in Belgrade, cat. no. 891. In 1673, there is a mention of the arrival of a monk Goslov in a hand-written osmoglasnik (church records). In 1688 in the records it was written that a priest Nikola came there. In 1699 it was mentioned in another monasterial book. There are no written records about the monastery during the XVIII century. However, there are two that refer to the XIX century: in 1842, when a Menaion was bought during Prior Serafim, and in 1856 in the monastery's ritual book. A number of detailed studies on the monastery were written, among which the most notable are the ones of P. Miljkovic - Pepek, Kosta Balabanov, and N. Okunjev.
