The Monastery of Ravanica, with its church of the Ascension, powerful fortifications, refectory, and cells, was built by Prince Lazar (Serbian Knez Lazar) in the 1380s. In the middle of the 1390s the church was frescoed, and the changed patronal composition was painted after Lazar’s death. The Ravanica church is a triconch with the base of an inscribed cross and five domes on sharply raised cubic bases. The facades are divided by columns, niches and cordon cornices. The church is constructed with alternating layers of stone and brick and adorned with decorative elements, including exceptionally rich low-relief sculptures. The subsequently added open narthex, destroyed in Turkish attacks, was rebuilt and frescoed between 1717 and 1729.