The Lešje monastery, as it seems, was mentioned for the last time in the Turkish register dating from about 1536, but it was not mentioned in the next Turkish register published about 1570, so we can presume that it had become desolate by that time. The folk tradition says that the last of monks of Lešje, along with other christians who congregated around the monastery, were slayed like martyrs by the Turks, who ravaged the monastery after the massacre.

Archeological explorations of the architecture of the church, along with the ones of the medieval necropolis that surrounds it, undoubtedly showed that that it was a religious place with traces of inhabitation since the 12^th century. The explorations of the architecture of Lešje showed that below the foundation of the triconch church there are older foundations.

Although it was not indisputably determined from which period the material remains of the church and Lešje originate, it is certain that the sanctity of Lešje is very old. It is certain that there are material traces of more than one church which originate from medieval period at the same place, and it confirms a widely spread tendency to honour the continuity of a located place of worship by erecting churches on the remains of the old temples.

The foundations (to the height of 0.5m) of the triconch church of Mother of God, i.e. the three-leaved base, were escavated, upon the miraculous vision, in 1923 by a peasant Živan Marković (1880-1972) from Lešje with his assistants. On the foundation of the old church, in the altar area, Živan had erected a church of small dimensions, “on three posts”, built from stone and covered with tin.

During the last restoration started in 2004, this church of humble dimensions was completely removed, and the new temple was erected on the considerably more extensive, partly preserved medieval foundations of triconch shape with certain modifications from the plan (for example, a parvis, which did not occur in the Lešje temple in the Middle ages, was added…) The construction works to finish the temple are still in progres.

The revitalization works on the tower in the south side of the church are also in progress, and it was named the Orlović Tower by the flag carrier of the king Lazar, Pavle Orlović. It has the belfry of the monastery on its top, and on the ground floor there is a section for lighting candles. The tower-belfry was erected on the massive medieval remains of the square tower made from the processed stone and which have been preserved to the height of 1.80m. Today, the belfry has 9 bells from the Russian bell foundry “Vera” and 1 bell cast in Ćuprija in 1990 and three more bells are planned to be acquired.