After finishing the reconstruction of the monastery of Kom, abbot Hrizostom with his brotherhood, at the will of God and out of love and wish to revive the abandoned shrines of Lake Skadar, got new holy task to obey. With the blessing of the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amfilohije Radovic and under the protection of the Monastery of Kom, on the day of St. George in 2006 year, he begins serious reconstruction of another great shrine – the Monastery of St. George on Island Kosmac in Lake Skadar.

The Monastery of Saint George is located on an island covered with laurel, also in the northwest part of Lake Skadar, known under the name of Gornje Malo Blato. There are only few saved records of this monastery, but it is located next to the Monastery of Sinjac and the Monastery of Goljemadi in Ljesane District. The tradition relates it to the fourteenth century and to Vukasin Mrnjavcevic, who, according to tradition, got married in this monastery. The church architecture itself, gable roof, small interior space and the stone as the basic material, all together show that the church was built in difficult time, on the inaccessible place and with limited means, most probably in the time of Turkish pressure and invasion and can be put in the fourteenth or the fifteenth century.

The church dedicated to Saint George was found completely ruined. There remained only edged walls of stone in the very bad condition – for a very long time exposed to different weather circumstances, overgrown with grass and with the visible cracks. There were no vault or roof, semi calotte of the apse existed, but the part of the wall and the whole vaulted part had been destroyed. On these remains were traces of lodgings and the monastery complex, which, like the church, were overgrown with grass. Monk Pavle (Kondic) had been maintaining the monastery for a period of time.

Because the monastery is very old and still has traces of the time when it was founded and has great spiritual value, a lot of effort was put in the reconstruction of the original looks of the monastery with, we can freely say, small improvements exclusively in the formal and functional sense.

The church of St. George was in its time built in two parts in two different periods of time. First was built the church with naos and altar apse, and later was added, in the extension towards west, the new part of the church which functioned as narthex, pronaos. With this addition the width and height of the older part wasn’t changed, but the length was almost doubled. Pronaos was a bit lower, and naos was by one step divided into naos itself and the higher altar part. From the resemblance to other churches in the neighborhood it is possible to come to a conclusion that both parts were probably vaulted with half oval vault, and that the floor was covered with plates of stone. Naos had three small rectangular holes – windows, one in the middle of the north wall – in the middle of the central of three by pilasters separated fields, the other on the opposite in the south wall, and the third, altar one, in the altar apse. Only the hole in the apse was visible and the hole in the south wall was indicated. In the north wall was the door – the entrance. Pronaos had three holes: the window – rectangular hole in the north wall, the door – arched hole in the south, and arched hole with the place for paintings as new main door to the church in the west wall. The window and the south door were walled up with the plate of stone. There were no ornaments. It is possible that only the entrance to the naos was decorated with plastic of stone like the original portal of the entrance to the church (which was concluded by lateral damages on both right and left side of the main entrance, probably made because of moving away stone ornaments).

The church of Saint George during the reconstruction, which is still being carrying out, keeps the originally existing form and, as much as possible, existing walls of stone. Only novelties comparing to the original looks of the church are much more holes in the wall between pronaos and naos and uniformed in dimensions and broaden arched windows. The wall between pronaos and naos was built with three arched holes which allowed more natural light and better view, and also improved communication during Service, and thus the modest interior space was somehow “opened”. With uniformed and larger windows was attained more natural light to pass through, as well as the impression of the unique entirety.

The church is not yet completely reconstructed and it mostly concerns interior works. On the outside the church is not plastered, but instead was clearly emphasized the connection of the original old and the reconstructed new church. Floors are being paved with plates of stone, and for windows and the entrance door is provided massive wood. The iconostasis is still being made, and the fresco painting is still in preparation. On the small plateau facing the west wall of the church was built small campanile with the cross, with three leaved ends, made of wrought iron. The Monastery lodgings and other parts of the complex are still waiting for their turn.

It is very important to point out that at the very beginning of the reconstruction of the Monastery, while cleaning up the terrain and digging up the ground next to existing walls of the old church of stone of St. George were found Relics of many Holy Saints who were most probably in their time leading an ascetic life in this shrine. Golden – yellow bones of Saints are God gifted spiritual treasury of this shrine and together with St George to whom this monastery is dedicated make its great blessing.

The reconstruction of the monastery is still going on!