Today the most dominant building in the city is the Kaymakamia building, presently “White Dove”. It was built in 1909 for the needs of Sjenica Mutasarrifate and Novi Varoš kaymakamia. The building used to house the Turkish court, Turkish public prosecutor, Turkish tax administration etc. It is a rare preserved jewel of Islamic-Ottoman architecture.
Between the two World Wars it was used for entertainment, after the Second World War it was the seat of the municipal administration, while today it preserves history, culture and knowledge: it houses the city library and the Department of the National Museum of Užice in Nova Varoš.
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Nova Varoš was built between 1857 and 1869. The construction was financed by the funds of the then church-school Municipality of Nova Varoš and the contributions by local community. The preserved documentation also states that the contemporary Turkish government provided 10,000 groschen for the construction of the temple. The dome of the temple collapsed in 1870 and was rebuilt in 1873, when the church was consecrated.
The church includes a single-nave building with a rectangular base and a semicircular altar apse. Ancient (Roman) remains are built into the stone foundations of the church.
The interior of the temple is not painted, and the icons on the iconostasis date from the time when the church was built. The royal doors were donated by Milan Obrenović, a Serbian prince. The icon of the Mother of God with a child “Umiljenje” was placed under state protection.
The first mosque in Nova Varoš was built on the location of the present-day school campus. Pervan-beg had it built at the beginning of the 16th century. The present-day mosque was built in the period from 1887 to 1895, financed by donations from the local community, including Mahmut-beg Bajrović, the richest and most influential citizen of Pljevlja at that time.
The mosque has a rectangular base, covered with a four-nave roof, which was originally covered with shingles, and later they were replaced with tiles. The main construction material was crushed stone which was plastered on the outside. Until the Second World War it had a wooden minaret, which was later replaced by a concrete minaret.
In the village of Kućani, in the hamlet of Peta on the slopes of Murtenica, there is one of the oldest wooden churches in this area. The church is dedicated to the birth of the Most Holy Mother of God. It is under state protection and declared an immovable cultural property – a cultural monument of great importance.
Traditions say that in the 11th century, here or nearby, existed a church dedicated to the Ascension of Christ. Historian Milan Đ. Milićević notes that the church was renovated in 1772 and cites one Turkish document in which that reconstruction is approved. A large number of authors however, link the origin of the church to 1780, when the royal doors, the work of Simeon Lazović were built. It is known that the church was renovated in 1832, with the help of Belgrade Metropolitan Mihailo, when the narthex was added.
With a modest interior and dimensions, this wooden church has all the elements of a sacral Orthodox building: the interior is divided into an altar space, a nave and a narthex, while the iconostasis has two passages leading to the altar space. It is important to stress that in the already mentioned imperial doors, made in gilded woodcarving with the representation of the encounter of the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Gabriel, predominates the combination of red and blue tones.
In 1808, on the glade of Zlatar, in the village of Radijevići, the priest Vasilija Purić built a log cabin church dedicated to the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Holy Trinity. The church, with a stone apse, was built in the shape of an old Vlach house with the intention of hiding its purpose from the Turks. Together with the surrounding area, it is under the protection of the state and has been declared an immovable cultural property – a cultural monument of great importance.
Five icons of this church, the work of Andrija Raičević, were placed under state protection. The icon of Jesus Christ, the icon of the Virgin with Christ, the icon of the Apostles Peter and Paul, the icon of St. George and the icon of the Holy Archangel Michael are all of equal dimensions, painted on a red background done with tempera on wood technique. Next to them is the icon of Saint Nicholas, the work of Simeon Lazović.
The village Štitkovo, located below Zlatar mountain, in a narrow valley created by the river Tisovica and its well Vrelo, is surrounded on three sides by hills.
The village is adorned with still preserved old Vlach houses that were built at the end of the 19th century. The oldest house was built in 1882. The old school, built in 1887, is still well preserved. With its architecture, the village Štitkovo seems to be frozen in time.
The center of the village Štitkovo is a good that enjoys prior protection according to the Law on Cultural Heritage.
In the center of the village is a church dedicated to the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God. The church was built on the site of a former monastery, built by Patriarch Gavrilo Raškovic in 1655. The monastery was destroyed in 1813 by the Turks, when Prince Maksim Rašković from Štitkovo approached the rebels and raised the old Vlach in revolt. Today’s church was built on the site of the destroyed monastery. Construction began in 1857, on the initiative of Pope Simo Čakarevic, who managed to get permission from the Turkish authorities to rebuild the temple. The church was consecrated at the Annunciation in 1868, and the last renovation of the temple was in 2018. The iconostasis was made by the masters of Debran, and the icons are the work of the Lazović family from Bijelo Polje.
The first research of the village was conducted in the early 1950s due to the construction of an accumulation lake on the river Uvac. In the area of the village, several archeological sites from prehistory, antiquity and the Middle Ages are found. During July 2003, organized by the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Kraljevo, rescue archeological excavations were started at the Grobljanica site, south of today’s cemetery, and west of the primary school building. The excavations were conditioned by the intention of the local community of the village to build a new church edifice on the spot where the wooden one was at the beginning of the 20th century.
At this site the stele-type tombstones, altar-type votive monuments, fragmented monuments, fragmented medieval stećak tombstones and pieces of architectural sculpture were found. During the excavations, the remains of the foundations of a smaller building were discovered: a wooden church built at the beginning of the 20th century.
The territory of the village of Radoinja, as well as the area of western Serbia, was located in the eastern part of the Roman province of Dalmatia, and after Diocletian’s reform, it became a part of the newly established province of Prevalis.