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Gornjak Monastery (Serbian Cyrillic: Манастир Горњак) is a 14th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the vicinity of today’s city of Petrovac na Mlavi Serbia.Gornjak monastery is located in Gornjacka gorge between Žagubica and Petrovac na Mlavi. Construction of the monastery was finished in 1380 by Starats (Elder) Grigorije and his brethren and the founder was king Lazar of Serbia.It was rather early that the monastery was mentioned in Turkish documents — in the 1520s and 1530s.

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