Montenegrin Prince-bishop Petar II Petrovic Njegos has built in 1845 (or 1846) on the Mount Lovcen peak the church dedicated to his uncle Petar I Petrovic Njegos. Just before his death Petar II notified his will to Montenegrins that they had to bury him in that church from where all Serb lands could be seen, but stressed if they reject to fulfil his last wish he would curse them. Petar II died in October 1851 and was buried firstly in the monastery of Cetinje because of fear that Turks could decapitate his body. Thus, his remains were transferred to his Oath Chapel on the Mount Lovcen in August 1855. However, in August 1916 Austrian occupation forces have destroyed the Chapel while Petar II Petrovic's remains were brought to the monastery of Cetinje. The Oath Chapel of Petar II was rebuilt in September 1925 by King Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, but after the victory of Yugoslav communists in WW2 and their political proclamation of separate "Montenegrin ethnicity" ("Montenegrin nation") in 1945, the main policy in Montenegro started to be the clash with Montenegrin glorious Serb past. Therefore, the Chapel of Petar II Petrovic Njegos was razed to the ground and replaced in 1974 with the pagan building known as the Njegos Mausoleum.

The full story about the Orthodox church, known as the Oath Chapel of Petar II Petrovic Njegos is available in Serbian.

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picture 13 - Mausoleum, the deed of a Croat nationalist, Ivan Mestrovic