Đurđevi stupovi (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђурђеви cтупови) (English: The Tracts of Saint George, often incorrectly translated as The Pillars of Saint George) is a 12th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the vicinity of today's city of Novi Pazar, in the Raška region of Serbia. The church was erected by the Grand Prince of Rascia, Stefan Nemanja, back in 1166, on the spot where the Serbian medieval capital of Ras once stood. It is currently undergoing reconstruction and renovation. Đurđevi stupovi was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and monastery have entered a UNESCO World Heritage list also in 1979 together with the complex of Stari Ras and Sopoćani.
The monastery was built by Grand Zupan Stefan Nemanja in the first years after coming to the throne of the Grand Zupan (the construction is finished 1171st), and the church was painted around the 1175th.
By writing of biographer of Stefan Nemanja, Stefan the First Crowned, his son, the monastery was founded by Nemanja, while he was imprisoned in a cave, vowed to build a monastery dedicated to St. George.
Another ktitor of the monastery was King Dragutin who is build the monastery church narthex and painted her. He is from Srem, where he lived, was transferred to the monastery of St. George and buried in the 1316th year.
The Tracts of Saint George was built in a style characteristic as a unique synthesis of two architectural concepts of the Middle Ages, Byzantine architecture in the East and Roman architecture in the West. Church of St. George has an important role in the formation of this architecture, known as the Raska school, which starts as a building's architecture, creative epoch in medieval Serbia.
The Tracts of St. George has many buildings with architectural innovation in the construction of the time. These include the characteristic towers - tracts, side vestibule, elliptical dome, irregular shape of the altar area and the specific solution of the central space of the church.
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