Ostrog is one of the most important centers of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro. The monastery was built in the rocks high above the Zeta valley. In old times, as a symbol of meekness, one climbed up the steep, rocky path barefoot. Nowadays a windy road leads all the way up to a parking lot next to the monastery, and barefoot pilgrims are rare. The white building glows against the brown rocks from a great distance.

The founder of the monastery was Archbishop Vasilije Jovanovic. Together with 30 other monks he decided, according to the chronicles, to establish the monastery in two caves high up in the Ostrog Mountain so that they would be unreachable by the Turks.