It is located on the small island of Odrinska gora, close to Žabljak Crnojevića, where the Crnojević River flows into the western section of Lake Skadar.

The Kom Monastery was built between 1415 and 1427, as an endowment of Đurađ and Aleksa Đurašević, members of the Crnojević noble family.

[2] The monastery continued with the practicises of orthodox church, which had been greatly expanded during the earlier rule of the Balšići.

For a short period of time, the monastery was the seat of the Zetan Metropolitanate.

In the Kom Monastery in 1831, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš was appointed as the archimandrite of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro.