Zočište Monastery

Kozme i Damjana) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery belonging to the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren, situated in the village of Zočište, about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Orahovac, Kosovo.

The shrine at the monastery was said to provide a miraculous cure for eye diseases and mental and psychosomatic disorders.

[9] With light artillery and machine guns, the KLA attacked for 45 minutes the Zočište Monastery where thirty elderly Serbs had taken shelter, together with seven monks and a nun, and damaged the communal house with two grenades.

[13] In October 2004, monastery reconstruction started, as Zočište was important and historical cultural designation.

The material used for construction consisted of dressed stones, lime mortar for binding and stone-slate roofing.

As the church when remodelled functioned as funerary chapel it had a table to keep a coffin and seats for people attending the funeral.

[2][5] Tell tale remains were seen in the vault and in a niche above the western entrance to the narthex; these were in the form of decorated frescos of a frieze of prophets and of the patrons SS Cosmas and Damian.

When the church was destroyed in 1999, icons and liturgical vessels were retrieved and deposited in Velika Hoča for safe keeping.

Ruins of monasteries after 2004 unrest
Salvaged old icon from the original 14th-century church