Kisha e Shën Premtës "Kisha e Levishës"

Saint Friday Church (Levisha Church), located in the Historical Centre of Prizren, was reconstructed in 1306-07. It is assumed that the foundations of a Paleo-Christian church of the first era (5-6 Century), and later of a Byzantine Basilica (9th Century) were laid over a pagan temple (BC), built as tribute to the Illyrian Goddess of fertility and birth: Prema, or Premta (Friday in English). Upon the invasion of Prizren by the Ottoman Empire, in the period 1455-1459, and its transformation into a mosque, it was called the Cuma Cami (Xhuma Xhami), used by the people to this day. During the First Balkan War in 1912, the mosque was remade into a church. Its minaret was torn down on 05.06.1923. In 1948, the church was put under legal protection, by decision no. 352. Based on historical, artistic, social and spiritual values, the Saint Friday Church (Levisha Church) in 2016 was proclaimed in permanent protection by the Kosovo Council for Cultural Heritage.