We have published the collection of the St Nikitas church in Skopska Crna Gora, North Macedonia. The church is the only remaining visible structure of the former monastery, which is assumed to have been founded between the late 10th and late 12th centuries, possibly by Serbian Grand Župan Stefan Nemanja. However it may have been built earlier by a Byzantine ruler or aristocrat. King Milutin undertook the significant rebuilding shortly after April 1299, granting estates and constructing a new church, and issuing a charter confirmed by Byzantine emperors Andronikos II and Michael IX by 1300. Between July 1307 and May 1308, St. Niketas became a metochion (dependency) of the coastal Pyrgos of Hrusija, which belonged to Hilandar Monastery, with Emperor Andronikos II also confirming this arrangement. By late 1321, it came under the direct administration of the hegoumenos of Monastery Hilandar. The church endured Ottoman rule from 1392 to 1912, undergoing subsequent rebuildings in 1484, in the late 16th century, and finally in 1846. Despite being abandoned on several occasions, the church is remarkably well-preserved, with its upper sections restored to their original forms during a 1979 conservation campaign.
