[1] Their earlier monastery below the Kozara Mountain was destroyed in war against the Ottoman Empire.

[1] Its first monks were Jovo Svilokos and Silvestar Prodanović while monk Atanasije Ljubojević managed to attain religious diploma recognizing monastery's spiritual guidance over the Orthodox Vlachs and Serbs in between the Kupa and Una rivers.

[1] In between the 1715 and 1738 the monastery was the seat of the first three epískoposes of the historical Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Kostajnica- those being Ugarković, Dimitrijević and Ljubibratić.

Local population opposed this decision and issued a People's Appeal against the abolition of monastery which was signed by two protopreslators, two governors, thirteen priests, and one 117 delegates from twenty-eight settlements.

[1] One of the relics saved in 1942 was the hand of the saint Teodor Tiron which survived burning by the Ottomans.