Krka Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael. It stands about 2 miles (3 kilometers) east of Kistanje in central Dalmatia, within Krka National Park. It is the best-known Serbian Orthodox monastery in Croatia.
The founding date is uncertain. Some sources say 1577, while others say it can be dated with certainty only from the mid-seventeenth century. The monastery is built on an ancient Roman site with catacombs. Its buildings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries surround a rectangular cloister with arcades, and the belfry is Romanesque.
The Ottomans plundered the monastery in 1647, and it was rebuilt around 1787. The library holds books from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. The monks returned in 1999, and the seminary reopened in 2001.
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