Monastery Of Lešok
The church of St. Athanasius was built in 1924 next to the Church of the Holy Mother of God. In the yard of the Monastery of Lešok is the tomb of the Bulgarian cleric, writer and enlightener Kiril Peychinovich, who was born in 1770. In his honor, this monastery hosts an International Meeting of Literary Translators. Tetovo is also a host to the Festival of the Macedonian Choirs.
On August 13, during the 2001 Macedonian Insurgency, shortly after the Ohrid Agreement, the monastery was destroyed by an explosive device. Both sides of the conflict denied responsibility. The corpse of a donkey painted with the letters UÇK (The Albanian abbreviation for National Liberation Army) were found next to the rubble though NLA forces within the town had claimed not to have been responsible nor to have been responsible and instead blamed local Macedonians from the town of Rate.
Today the monastery dormitories have been restored and are used to accommodate summer tourists.
References
- ^ www.culture.org
- ^ Smith, Michael (August 22, 2001). "Monastery blast fails to derail Nato peace effort". The Telegraph. Retrieved February 24, 2024.