Sights in Bulgaria

The Monastery "St. Nicholas Letni" is located in the region of Godech, north of Komshtitsa village, between neighborhoods of Trap and Molak. This place was religious site since the ancient times. The oldest remains found there are of a Roman temple with two altar. After the III century, at...

The Monastery of Dryanovo is located in valley of Andaka River, around 4km south-west of town of Dryanovo. It was founded in the XII-th century (during the Second Bulgarian Empire) and twice destroyed and restored during the Ottoman rule in Bulgaria. At its current location the monastery exists...

The Monastery "St. Simeon the Stylite and St. Petka" near village of Ognyanovo (Elin Pelin municipality) is built with funds of the local villagers.According to legends, a woman from the village (the grandmother Elena) dreamed there must be built a monastery are this place , but the owner of the...

The Monastery "Holy Spirit" is located west of Godech, left of the road Godech - Dragoman. In the middle-ages at the same place, where today`s monastery is built, there was a church, foundations of which and a votive cross were discovered. In 1945-1946, with funds from donations, was built...

Bukorovski Monastery "St. George" is located about 1.5 km north of the village of Bukorovtsi and west of the village of Tuden. Near the monastery were found remains of an old village cemetery from a late medieval church. The construction of the current monastery began in the early XX...

Varna Monastery "St. St. Konstantin and Elena" is located in the resort "St. Constantine and Helena" - few kilometers north of Varna. It is suggested the monastery was founded in the beginning of XVIII century, although there is evidence for the existence of a monastery in these...

The Monastery "St. Marina" (aka "The monastery of Dobrudzhantsi") is located east of the village of Botevo (Varna region), about 35 km. away from city of Varna, near the border between Varna and Dobrich districts. The monastery can be reached by the main road Varna - Dobrich and ...

The Monastery "St. Archangel Michael" is located north of the village of Brestovo (Blagoevgrad district), in the neighborhood Popovski, 20km west of town of Simitli in the valley of "Stara reka" river. The monastery is one of the oldest in southwestern Bulgaria and it ...

In the lands of the village of Batoshevo there are located two monasteries - the Male Monastery "Uspenie Bogorodichno" (4-5 km away from the village) and the Nunnery "Blessed Virgin", in the borders of the village.At this moment the date of its founding is unknown. In the XVIIth...

The Monastery "Pokrov bogorodichen" is located about 3km. west of Aydemir towards Ruse. It was built in 1996 and its walls were painted in October 2001 by 4 students. The Iconostasis include both - the traditional Christian saints and portraits of 12 local Durostorum saints (there are ...