The monastery "Manastiri i Ardenicës" is said to have been built in the 11th century on the foundations of an ancient temple of Artemis.

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In 1967, the monastery was forcibly dissolved by the communist rulers, but was not destroyed like so many other sacred buildings in Albania, but was declared a cultural monument and maintained as such. At the end of the 1980s, the monastery complex was converted into a tourist hotel; the monks' cells served as rooms. In 1992, the Orthodox Church of Albania received the monastery church back. Immediately afterwards, a priest was sent to Ardenica, who again held regular services. It took years before the outbuildings and land were returned. Since the mid-1990s, a community of monks has lived in the monastery again.

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