Peschtera Monastery
The monastery Peshtera is dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Myra dedicated ( Bulgarian Пещерски манастир "Свети Николай Мирликийски" / Peschterski manastir "Sveti Nikolaj Mirlikisky") and is located about 70 km southwest of the Bulgarian capital Sofia , around 1.5 kilometers east of the village Peshtera in of the municipality of Zemen .
The monastery in the Orechovets region in the Mraka region, which is why it is still known as the Orjachowo monastery (Оряховски манастир / Orjachowski manastir) or the Mratschki monastery (Мрачки манастир / Mratschki manastir).
The monastery was mentioned for the first time in the Mraka document (1348), which was made on behalf of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Alexander .
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Coordinates: 42 ° 30 '39 " N , 22 ° 46' 0.7" E