Dajla monastery information

The Dajla monastery

Samostan Dajla
Dajla Monastery
Monastery information
Full name	Monastery of Saint John the Baptist
Established	Early middle ages
Disestablished	1945
Dedicated to	John the Baptist
Diocese	Poreč-Pula
Architecture
Status	Defunct
Site
Location	Dajla, Novigrad
Country	Croatia
Coordinates	45°21′05″N 13°32′33″E / 45.3514°N 13.5426°E / 45.3514; 13.5426

The Dajla monastery is a former Benedictine early medieval monastery located in the hamlet of Dajla in the town of Novigrad in Croatia.

The Benedictines established the monastery in the place of already existing Basilian monastery in the early Middle Ages. They owned the monastery until the late 13th century when it became a possession of the Sabini family. The Sabini family expanded the monastery's possessions and owned it until 1736 when it was inherited by the related Grisoni family. The Grisoni family donated it to the Benedictines from the Praglia Abbey in 1841. The Benedictine intensified the economic activities of the monastery, exporting agricultural products. They abandoned the monastery after World War II, which became the state ownership in 1947. In 1999 the monastery wasa given to the current owner, the Diocese of Poreč-Pula. In 2006, the Benedictines filed a lawsuit requesting the return of the monastery from the Diocese of Poreč-Pula, however, their lawsuit was dismissed by the court in 2015.