Gomionica Monastery

The Gomionica Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Гомионица, romanized: Manastir Gomionica) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Presentation of Mary and located at the village of Kmećani, 42 kilometres west of Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the second half of the 16th century, the abbot of the monastery was credited by the Ottomans for the peaceful attitude of the population of a wide area around Gomionica.

It was badly damaged during World War II, and its abbot, Serafim Štrkić, was murdered in 1941 by the Nazi-affiliated Croatian Ustaše.

The monastery once owned a woodcarved cross is a silver-gilt made in 1640, which was later in the private collection of Thomas Gambier Parry and is now at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

[3] The Gomionica Monastery was designated by KONS as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 20 January 2006.