High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Shirgj Monastery is an abandoned Benedictine monastery in the village of Shirgj on the Bojana River in northern Albania. The monastery was dedicated to Saints Sergius and Bacchus and was built by Helen of Anjou in 1290, seemingly on top of a pre-6th century basilica. The monastery was built in 1290 by Helen of Anjou, queen consort of Rascia, Duklja, Albania, Chilmiae, and Dalmatia, wife of Serbian king Stefan Uros I, and mother of kings Dragutin and Milutin. Apparently the monastery was constructed on top of an an existing structure: according to apocryphal documents, the original monastery is mentioned as erected by Justinian, whereas in other sources its existence is mentioned as an abbey starting from 1100. The presence of a pillar of black granite, a material which originates from Syria and was often times used in 6th-century basilicas in Albania, demonstrates that the construction of the original building may indeed lie in the 6th century.

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