Visoki Dečani Monastery

On the spot: Diocese of Raško-Prizren

12.November 2025. Jelena Jorgacevic

Church and cemetery guards

"I am priest Dragan Radovanović, from the parish in Peja near the Church of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist. I come from the north of Kosovo, the village of Banje near Zubin Potok. I live here with my wife and two minor children," Father Dragan introduced himself. Today, he and his family are the only Serbs in Pec

KiM

16.March 2024. DW

Noje Zircher Zeitung about returning the land to Visoki Dečani: Kurti "gnashed his teeth"

Aljbin Kurti finally ordered the cadastre to return 24 hectares to the Visoki Dečani monastery on the basis that it will help Kosovo's admission to the Council of Europe, writes a reputable Swiss newspaper in a report from Dečani

Kosovo

07.March 2024. MN/KoSSev

Stolen land: to Kurti Kurtijevo, and Visoki Dečani what belongs to them

The Constitutional Court of Kosovo ruled in 2016 that the land must be returned to the Visoki Dečani monastery. The executive authority has not yet acted on the binding decision of the court. Now there are signs that could change

KiM

29.February 2024. SZ/RSE/Kossev

The decade-long saga surrounding Visoki Dečani: Pristina still does not return 24 hectares

The head of EULEX criticizes the fact that Prishtina still does not return the land to the Visoki Dečani monastery. And even eight years after the Kosovo Constitutional Court said that 24 hectares must be returned to the monastery