The areas in the area of Kosanica and Gornja Toplica hide traces and pages of the medieval past of the Serbian people in their bowels. Today, Nemanja’s endowments, then monasteries, churches and chapels remind us of those times. There are still traces and ruins of them. Some have been discovered recently, others have been renovated or are just being built.
Experts say that there is no settlement in the Kursumlija area where there are no such traces. It is known that in the Middle Ages there were monasteries in Vlahinja, Grabovnica, Zebice, Trpeze, Bogujevac and some other rural areas. In them, in a beautiful natural environment, as rarely where, in the past of this region, the monastic fraternities found refuge on their sublime task of preserving spiritual and national identity. They have been carrying out their sacred mission in the silence of centuries.
It is quite certain that in almost every one of the 90 settlements in the area of Kosanica and Upper Toplica, there were or are shrines. The monks started Serbian spirituality in this area, building temples older than Hilandar and the famous cathedral church in Paris, Notre Dame de Paris. More precisely, the church of St. Nikola in Kursumlija, the endowment of Stefan Nemanja, according to the date of construction, is 32 years older than Hilandar, and 92 years older than Notre Dame in Paris.
