In addition, the refectory of the Manasija guesthouse has for decades been a place where theological lectures and panel discussions, spiritual talks, scholarly conferences, and seminars on Serbian medieval history and art are held (such as the renowned “Days of Serbian Spiritual Transfiguration” - gatherings of scholars and researchers held continuously since the last decade of the 20th century), thereby also confirming the importance of Manasija Monastery as a spiritual and cultural center.
On the upper floor of the guesthouse is the Manasija library, the guardian of the written heritage and treasures of Orthodox spirituality - which, in its importance for the monastic and spiritual life of the monastery, comes immediately after the Church of the Holy Trinity at Manasija.
Bibliography
Selected bibliography, arranged chronologically
Gordana Simić, “In Memory of Abbess Paraskeva (Jovanović). Another Candle Has Gone Out” („У знак сећања на игуманију Параскеву (Јовановић). Угасила се још једна свећа“), The Orthodox Missionary: Supplement to the Herald of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Православни мисионар: подлистак Гласника Српске Православне Цркве), vol. XLII, no. 5/1999, issue 249 (1999): 32–35: 34.
Schema-Abbess Paraskeva (Jovanović), Diary Entries and Letters (Дневнички записи и писма), edited and compiled by Olivera Mijailović (Svilajnac: Monastery of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, 2019), 172–173.
Stojadin Tomić, Monasteries and Churches in Upper Resava (Манастири и цркве у Горњој Ресави) (Despotovac: “Resavska škola” National Library - Belgrade: Cultural and Educational Community of Serbia, 2023), 68–73.