March 24, 2011

Novak Djokovic Donates 100,000 USD to Gračanica Monastery


Serbian Tennis Player Novak Djokovic Donates 100,000 USD to Gračanica Monastery in Kosovo and Metohija

March 23, 2011
Pravoslavie.ru

Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has donated 100,000 USD to the Serbian Monastery Gračanica in Kosovo and Metohija, reports Sedmiza.ru, citing the official website of the Raska-Prizren diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

According to this report, the donation is earmarked for the purchase of a parcel of land located near the medieval monastery. The monastery was forced to purchase the parcel at a very high price; otherwise, it would have been permanently disassociated from the Serbian Orthodox Church.

The monetary donation was transferred to the monastery through the humanitarian "Novak" fund.