Lešok Monastery

The Monastery of Lešok is a monastery, near the village of Lešok in Tearce Municipality, North Macedonia. It is located close to the border with Kosovo. Lying at 638 metres above sea level it is located on the southeastern side of the mountain Šar Planina. In its complex are the churches of St. Athanasius of Alexandria and the Holy Mother of God Church. The Lešok Monastery developed from an earlier monastic complex located about 500 meters north of the present monastery site. Archaeological surface research suggests that this earlier monastery was relatively small, consisting of modest residential quarters and a small church. Its construction likely began during the reign of the Serbian king Stefan Uroš II Milutin (r.