The Orthodox monastery was founded at the foot of the northern slopes of the Todorini Kukla peak in 1240. It is the fourth largest monastery in Bulgaria. The complex consists of two churches, three residential buildings, a kitchen and outbuildings.
The main church is a three-nave structure covered with a cross-dome. There is an iconostat by Stoycho Fandakov and icons painted by Nikola Obrazopisov at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the temple you can also see frescoes made in the 1930s by Bulgarian artists, Mr. Zhelyazkov Serbezov and Georgia Bogdanov.
During the Ottoman rule, the monastery was destroyed many times. In 1862, by order of the Turkish pasture, the buildings were burned down and the 120 monks living in them were murdered. The monastery was rebuilt and re-consecrated at the end of the 19th century.
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