ПРИЛОГ ИСТОРИЈИ МАНАСТИРА РАКОВЦА
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE RAKOVAC MONASTERY

Summary/Abstract: According to a legend, the first mentioning of the Rakovac Monastery dates from 1498, which would include it among the oldest monasteries in the Holy Mountain Fruška Gora. It was destroyed several times during the Turkish rule in Srem, and under the Habsburgs it became a very important literary and transcription centre of the Serbian nation, specially at the beginning of the 18th century, when the famous Rakovac Srbljak was written in the Monastery in 1714. Since very little is known in history about the ways how the objects for religious service got to the Monastery, every, even the smallest fact about that deserves our attention. Within that framework, we present a list of the property from the end of the 18th century which is kept in the Archives of The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Sremski Karlovci. Unfortunately, a great deal of the church riches was irretrievably lost during the 20th century, due to robbery and burning of monasteries by the Austrian-Hungarian and Croatian Ustasha army, that is its partial destruction during World War I and total destruction during World War II.

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