“Holy Mother of God,” Kalishta – Cave Church in the cliff west of the current monastery church. For its construction, the large incision was used in the rock, which on the east side is closed with a wall that has obtained the form of the altar apparatus church “St. Virgin, “Kalishta, Struga (ⅹⅴⅰⅰ-ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ c.) Yes. Around the Church has authentic monastic cells. The interior space is covered with a semi-centered vault on which Christ is painted, angels and supporters of the prophets. In the lower zone, the cycle of large holidays is painted, and in the lowest zone of the North Wall of the Slavic Saints, St. Kiril Philosopher and St. Kliment Ohridski, accompanied by St. Spiridon and St. Nicholas. On the west wall is the hospitality of Abraham and the supplies of the three Jewish boys. The church and the frescoes are created at the beginning of the ⅹⅴⅰⅰ century, and the altar apse and the niche of the prosthesis in the second half of the ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ century. Lit.: Costa Balabanov – Anthony Nikolovski – Dimitar Kalikov, monuments of culture of Macedonia, Skopje, 1980, 281-282; Cvetan Grozdanov, wall painting and icon painting in the Struga region, Struga and Struga, Struga, 1970, 340; Goce Angelich-Jura, pages of the history of the art of Ohrid and Ohrid-NEO (ⅹⅴ-ⅹⅰⅹ century), Ohrid, 1997, 33-39. S. C.
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис СВЕТА БОГОРОДИЦА , КАЛИШТА