Rmanj Monastery

Rmanj Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Martin Brod, in the picturesque area where the Unac flows into the Una, within Una National Park. It is an important spiritual center of the northern tri-border area of Bosnia, Lika, and Dalmatia. Local tradition attributes its construction to Catherine Branković, daughter of the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. According to the name of her son Herman, who died young of illness, the name arose — from Herman to Rmanj.

The first reliable written mention dates from 1498. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was the seat of the Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosnia and a cradle of the spiritual elite; at the turn of the century it housed up to one hundred monks. Repeatedly destroyed and restored, it was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1944 because a partisan hospital was located there. The church was built of the characteristic Una tufa, and its frescoes were restored. It was declared a national monument of BiH.
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