Privina Glava Monastery

{{Short description|Monastery in Serbia}}

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The Privina Glava Monastery ({{langx|sr|Манастир Привина Глава|Manastir Privina Glava}}) is a Serb Orthodox monastery on the Fruška Gora mountain in northern Serbia, in the province of Vojvodina. According to legend, Privina Glava was founded by a feudal lord whose name was Priba/Priva, in the 12th century while another attribution is the 15th century Srem despots of the Branković family. The earliest historical records about the monastery are dated in 1566/1567. The icons in the altar screen were painted by Andrej Šaltist in 1786, and the wall paintings by Kuzman Kolarić in 1791.{{cite book |last1=Janićijević |first1=Jovan |title=The Cultural Treasury of Serbia |date=1998 |publisher=IDEA |isbn=9788675470397 |page=548}}{{cite book |last1=Savičin |first1=Dragoljub |title=Manastir u Privinoj Glavi, najstariji na Fruškoj gori (1198-1212) |date=2014 |publisher=Kulturno-obrazovni centar |isbn=9788684411084 |pages=2-5}}

Prvina Glava Monastery was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljMtAQAAIAAJ&q=monasteries+of+fruska+gora+under+cultural+protection+of+serbia|title = The Monasteries of the Fruška Gora|isbn = 9788676391158|last1 = Kulić|first1 = Branka|last2 = Srećkov|first2 = Nedeljka|year = 1994| publisher=Provincial institute for the protection of the cultural monuments of Vojvodina }}