Monastery of the Patriarchate of Pec The Monastery of the
Patriarchate of Pec, Serbian: Пећка патријаршија or Pećka
Patrijaršija,, is a monastery of the Church of Serbia, located
near Pec in Kosovo. The monastery is a complex of churches that
is the spiritual seat and mausoleum of Serbian archbishops and
patriarchs. The date of the foundation of the monastery is
unknown. It is thought that the site became a metoh of Zica
Monastery, that is, land owned and governed by a monastery,
while St. Sava was still alive, and was the seat of the Serbian
archbishopric. The Temple of the Holy Apostles was built by
Archbishop Arsenius I during the 1230s and its wall paintings
done about 1260. Archbishop Nikodemus built the Church of St.
Demetrius north of the Church of Holy Apostles between 1321 and
1324. Then about 1320, Archbishop Daniel II built the churches
dedicated to Virgin Odigitrija (Hodegetria) and St. Nicholas on
south side of the Church of Holy Apostles. He work included the
monumental parvis in the shape of a