“St. Athanasij Alexandria” – Monastery Church in the village. Krushe (Krushevo). Built from crushed stone and mortar (1617). One-aisled church with a rectangular basis, with a semicircular vault and wide apse and open porch with a kalot lying on four pillars. At the time of the masonry of the church, the monastery was Joasav, and the funds for building were provided Petko V’lekov from Bitola. According to the preserved inscription in the porch, in 1622. (At the time of Jeromonk Venetk), the church was restored with the funds of several donors. The fresco painting in the Church has average artistic values, and in its quality and after the iconography of painted characters, it stands out that in the open porch (painted in 1622), where the Macedonian “desert” Prohor Pchinski, Joachim Sarandoporo, Gavril Lesnovski and John Rilski, and from the compositions, special attention attracts the illustrations of the months with the most characteristic things that are performed within that time period. The old lodgings in the monastery complex were demolished in 1895, and later new on their place were built. It is thought that the festive icons of the iconostasis are the work of the unknown painter that worked the fresco painting in the porch of the church. Lit.: Mirjana ‘¢ – Work ¢, two churches ⅹⅴⅰⅰ-Og, centuries of Krusevom, “Journew of Skopje, Skopje Science Companies”, ⅹⅹⅰ, Skopje, 1940; C. Petkovs ¢, review Chkkench Memovenik Kroz Norkos Srpskog People, Belgrade, 1950. K. B.
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис СВЕТИ АТАНАСИЈ АЛЕКСАНДРИСКИ