Troyan Monastery
42°51′45″N 24°46′50″E / 42.86250°N 24.78056°E
The Monastery of the
The monastery is situated on the banks of the Cherni Osam near Oreshak, a village 10 km from Troyan in Lovech Province, and is a popular tourist destination.
The main church of the monastery was reconstructed near the end of
The iconostasis in the central church is a wood carving dating to 1839.
The Troyan Monastery is also, since the 17th century, the home of one of the holiest icons in Bulgarian Orthodoxy, the Three-Handed Virgin.
Many people make a pilgrimage to this monastery on St. George's Day because of an icon of St. George in the main church. The room in which Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski was hiding and meeting with other revolutionaries during the Ottoman period is a museum.
Gallery
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An 1876 drawing of the monastery
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The courtyard inside the monastery
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The Three-Handed Virgin icon
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Mural paintings on the church "Holy Mother of God" (in the monastery)
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Another example of mural paintings
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Plan