[4] The monastery is single-naved and has a rectangular apse shape, and low choir chapels at the side, appearing as transepts on the ground plan.

In the Ston charter (1253) of Stefan Uroš I, the King of Serbia, the villages "Brskovo, Prostenija, Stričina, Gostilovina, Bistrica, and the hamlets of Dobrihnina (later Dobrilovina) and Bjelojevina" are mentioned, and these exist still today, all in the Mojkovac municipality.

[6] The oldest existing sources mentioning the monastery date from 1592, when the Ottoman Empire issued a ferman (decree) approving the locals' reconstruction of a destroyed church in the grounds.

[8] The church, dedicated to Saint George, was finished in 1609 as an endowment of hegumen Joakim and the monastic brotherhood,[7] which is attested by the inscription above the doorway to the nave.

[1] These valuables, including books and church utensils, among which were an ancient panagia, were later transferred to the Nikoljac Monastery in Bijelo Polje.

[1] However, the same year, Turks from Kolašin attacked the monastery and "dispersed the [monastic] brotherhood", and the church was renovated only in 1866, when archimandrite Mihailo Dožić-Medenica (1848-1914) was sent as an administrator.

[1][16] It became the "centre of the spiritual and political life and aspirations for freedom in the wide area of Potarje",[17] Dožić also established a school that was operated secretly in the monastery, the first school in the valley of Tara — this was a very significant step towards national awakening here and in surrounding regions.

[19] Намеће се с тога питање, да ли да- нашње име Добриловина није мало измењено, у више народном облику, раније име Добрихнина, чије се зна- чење, по личном власништву, временом заборавило.

Мени ствар изгледа потпуно вероватна, тим више што се Бис- трица и Добриловина, које се у обе повеље вежу за- једно (у Лимској чак Бистрица Добрихнина), налазе на левој страни Таре, једна иза друге, док су Прошћење и ...После 1699. године овдје су из манастира Довоље пренијете мошти архиепископа Арсенија.