Krupa Monastery is located at the foot of the Velebit Mountain, near the sources of the Krupa river. It was built at the time of King Milutin in 1317. Legend says that the foundations were sat by monks from the monastery in Bosanska Krupa. This monastery often suffered in the various destructions after which it was always renewed.
Monastery Krupa preserves valuable cultural and spiritual testimony, despite the frequent devastation in the past.

For the first time since the foundation was rebuilt during Emperor, late 1345. This is evidenced by a record in the firmament of the monastery church. Serbian King Milutin, his son Stefan Decanski, and grandson of Stefan Dusan, published by the monastery in the form of grants of land for subsistence, and later to confirm ferman and Turks from Istanbul.

Monastery Krupa preserves valuable cultural and spiritual testimony, despite the frequent devastation in the past. Sixties of the 20th century frescoes were discovered in the monastery church and to those whom the 1622nd The freskopisao Hilandar monk George Mitrofanović, the same inoculation Hilandarska who painted the dining room. The Krupa icons are kept Italo-Cretan school, work John Apak. Preserves the relics of St. particles. Jeroteja. There is a coffin from the monastery Rmnja passed in Krupa during the Bosnian insurrection 1875th year. Manastirka treasure is guarded and three antiminsa: one is the Jerusalem Patriarch Theodosius, second patriarch Arsenius IV Šakabente census from 1743. and the third is called. Krupa from the 1739th year.

The monastery archives were kept and 22 Turkish firman of which is an interesting one that relates to the protection of the monastery of Krka, and released by the Turkish Sultan Mustafa II in Istanbul.

A number of liturgical books and other valuables, the monastery is Archimandrite obtained Krupa, the great traveler and writer of important Serbian Gerasim Zelic. On a sturdy champion of Orthodoxy, he died in exile, in Buda 1828th Zelic the first person who was a member of the Serbian Cultural Society founded 1826.godine.