"Holy Trinity" Church

 church, Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The church of the monastery was built in 1847 by Kolyu Ficheto (one of the most renowned master builders of the Bulgarian Revival Period) and has beautiful wall-paintings. Zahari Zograf (the famous Bulgarian artist and iconographer, representative of Samokov Artistic School) painted the big icons of the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist, Christ Almighty, the Holy Trinity, etc.
In 1913 the church was destroyed by an earthquake. Some old icons were saved, and one of them was the Holy Trinity icon painted in 1708 which the temple was named after.
The church has an underground chapel and there are caves carved in the rocks that were used as cells and chapels during the Middle Ages.
At the altar and the narthex of the church Roman monuments with inscriptions from Nicopolis ad Istrum were discovered.

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