At Kosovo Monastery, Nationalist Clamor Disturbs the Peace
The monastery’s Serbian Orthodox abbot says he is subject to “rabid nationalism” from all sides. His biggest headache: a land dispute with ethnic Albanians, whom he protected during the war in the 1990s.
The 14th-century Visoki Decani Monastery in western Kosovo is one of the holiest sites of the Serb Orthodox Church.Credit.Laura Boushnak for The New York Times
Published March 13, 2021Updated March 16, 2021
DECAN, Kosovo Inside the walls of Father Sava Janjic’s 14th-century monastery reign silence and calm, interrupted by the occasional soft footfall of the few monks remaining in this revered outpost of the Serbian Orthodox Church in a hostile western Kosovo.