Very little is known about the odlest Chilandar church erected by Stefan Nemanja and his son, monk Sava 1199. Neither is is known where it  was sited, although it could  be assumed that King Milutin’s foundation superceded it. Of that smaller, but as it  seems richly decorated church, several capitals and relief panels have survived, incorporated in King Milutin’s church,then one capital on the monastery well, while the mosaic icon of the Virgin and the wooden royal doors from the iconos-tasis, inlaid with ivory, are kept in the treasury.

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