Podgumer Monastery St. Demetrius

Bulgaria / Sofija grad / Novi Iskar /
 monastery, Medieval / Middle Ages
The Podgumer Monastery is located in a small valley in the south foot of the Sofia Mountain of West Balkan Mountain, around 5 km north-east of village of Podgumer and 7 km east of Novi Iskar Town. It was built probably in XIIIth century and till nowadays was destroyed and restored many times.
In the period XVI-XVIIth century the monastery was one of the literary centers in the district and there was a rich library as some of the book and documents were written by the monks living in the monastery. Once the monastery kept a copy of the first edition of Nedelnik (Sunday Study) written by Sofroniy Vrachanski, which was printed in Rome in 1806.

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Coordinates:   42°48'54"N   23°24'33"E
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