Church of St Luke with Cemetery, Brotnice

The Church of St Luke with its cemetery is located south of the village of Brotnice in Konavle, in Dubrovnik-Neretva County. It is of interest to visitors for its medieval stećci, among which there is one with an inscription in Bosnian Cyrillic (bosančica).

The church is a single-nave building with a rectangular ground plan, without an apse, and above the western façade rises a bell gable. It is first mentioned in the 15th century, and was last renovated in the 18th century. Around it extends a cemetery with 32 preserved stećci: 22 chests, nine slabs and one gabled. A smaller number are decorated, with figural motifs (scenes of the kolo dance, hunting and horsemen), plant motifs (tendrils, rosettes) and symbolic signs (cross, star, crescent). The most significant monument is the decorated gabled stećak with an inscription in Bosnian Cyrillic.

The church with the cemetery is a protected cultural good and is entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-913. It belongs to sacred architectural heritage.

Photo: Ma▀▄Ga, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: Wikidata (CC0).