Dragalewtsi Monastery
The Dragalewtsi Monastery ( Bulgarian Драгалевски манастир ) is a monastery of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and is located on the northern foothills of the Vitosha Mountains near Dragalewzi , a district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia . It is dedicated to the Holy Theotokos .
It is believed that the monastery was founded around 1345 by the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Alexander . The monastery was directly subordinate to the Bulgarian patriarch. For the first time the monastery was mentioned as a tsar monastery in 1371 in the Vitosha deed , which was issued on behalf of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Shishman . The monastery grew into a complex consisting of a monastery church, residential and farm buildings.
After Sofia was taken by the Ottomans in 1382, the monastery was destroyed. It was not rebuilt until the second half of the 15th century, but then quickly developed into a writing center for Bulgarian culture. Today only the monastery church remains of the complex.
Monastery church
The monastery church is a single-nave , single apse 5 × 12 m building with a chapel wreath . Stylistically, it is seen in a group with the other churches around Sofia, which were built in the 15th century: the monastery churches of the monasteries Kremikowzi and Karlukowo , the Sofia Church Sweta Petka Samardschijska , the Church Sweta Petka in Balscha and other church buildings in the Struma valley . The oldest frescoes in the church date from 1476 and were made by painters from the Ohrid School .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition. Brill. Leiden Vol. 8, p. 164 f. (Article: Okhrī)
Web links
- Dragalewtsi Monastery on www.bulgarianmonastery.com
- Dragalewtsi Monastery in the Orthodox portal www.pravoslavieto.com
Coordinates: 42 ° 37 ′ 10 ″ N , 23 ° 17 ′ 57 ″ E