Moštanica Monastery

Moštanica is a Serbian Orthodox female monastery located in a valley of the Kozara mountain and Moštanica river some 20km from Kozarska Dubica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is dedicated to Archangel Michael and is protected by law as a cultural heritage monument. It is ecclesiastically part of the Eparchy of Banja Luka. According to tradition it was founded in the Middle Ages, but it was built in the early 16th century. In 1693 the Moštanica monks founded the Komogovina Monastery. Between 1556 and 1993 the monastery was destroyed seven times. During World War II the monastery was a site of Ustashe (Croatian fascist regime) crimes against Serbs.