Near today’s village of Mala Maslenjača there is a monastery and church of St. Anne, built in the Gothic style in the 15th century, which was built in 1412 by the Pauline Order of St. Benedict. The Turks left it in ruins, and then the monks from the Pakra monastery came and restored the church and the monastery. After they were driven out of the monastery in 1779, by order of Maria Theresa, it was given to the landowner Izidor Janković, for whom the monastery later served as a hay storage, and in 1836 it served as a stable and was completely neglected.
Despite the turbulent history, the Church of St. Anne preserves numerous Gothic elements and is among the most valuable buildings of this style in continental Croatia. The church is single nave, reinforced with buttresses. The altar apse is three-sided on the outside and semicircular on the inside. The altar is lit by three Gothic biforas. There are three Gothic biforas each to the north and south, which illuminate the nave of the temple. There is an entrance on the north side, as well as on the west side, above which there is a Gothic monofora. There are no traces of the once large Gothic tower, which was there in 1702. Several damaged icons from the 18th century can be seen in the church. The iconostasis is from 1906, and was made by a craftsman from Zagreb, while the frames were made by an unknown carpenter from Pakrac. The monument is under state protection.
Its beauty was transferred to the canvas by the painter Oton Iveković, and the watercolor is owned by the Croatian History Museum in Zagreb.
