The Smoke Cave or Kađenica is a cave-church located in the village of Dljina near Čačak

Cacak

Čačak is a city in central Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Moravica District of Serbia. Čačak is also the main industrial, cultural and sport center of the district...

 on the right bank of the Zapadna Morava

Zapadna Morava

West Morava , is a river in central Serbia, a 308 km-long longer headstream of the Great Morava, which it forms with the South Morava.- Origin :...

, one kilometre upstream from Ovčar Banja, Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

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During the Hadži Prodan's revolt

Hadži Prodanova buna

Hadži Prodan's Revolt was an interphase between the two major uprisings in Serb populated parts of the Ottoman Empire. Despite the collapse of the First Serbian Uprising in 1813, the tensions in the Pashaluk of Belgrade nevertheless persisted. In 1814 an revolt was launched by Hadži Prodan...

 in 1814, people found refuge in the cave. Turks discovered their hiding place and using straw and woods set it on fire, suffocating everyone inside. This incident also gave the name to the cave. In 1936 the remains were retrieved, fully cremated and buried in two stone sarcophagus

Sarcophagus

A sarcophagus is a funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved or cut from stone. The word "sarcophagus" comes from the Greek σαρξ sarx meaning "flesh", and φαγειν phagein meaning "to eat", hence sarkophagus means "flesh-eating"; from the phrase lithos sarkophagos...

es. They were paces in the cave's church altar apse

Apse

In architecture, the apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome...

, under the representation of the Jesus' Crucifixion.