Tscherepisch Monastery
The Kloster Cherepish ( Bulgarian Черепишки манастир ) formally Assumption or Assumption of Mary or Hl. Assumption ( Bulgarian Успение Богородично Assumption Bogorodichno ), a is Bulgarian Orthodox convent in North Bulgaria . It is one of the largest Bulgarian monasteries and is subordinate to the Diocese of Wraza .
On September 20, 1950, the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) decided to merge the Sofia and Plovdiv Spiritual Academies . The Tscherepisch train station, near the Tscherepisch monastery, was assigned as the seat of the merged academy.
location
The Tscherepisch Monastery is located in the Balkan Mountains and lies in the gorge of the Iskar River , approx. 40 km southeast of Wraza and approx. 60 km north of the Bulgarian capital Sofia . Not far from the monastery is the station of the same name and the village of the same name .
literature
- Aesn Wasilew: Черепишки манастир "Успение Пресветия Богородици" , Sofia, 1944, p. 47
- Ivan Sotirov: Чипровска златарска школа. Средата на ХVІ - началото на ХVІІІ век , in Съкровища на България. Volume II , Agato Publishing House, Sofia, 2001 pp. 206–207
- V. Tarosheva: Семеен архив на Хаджитошеви. Volume ІІ (1827-1878) 2002
Web links
- History of the monastery (bulg.) On www.pravoslavieto.com
- The monastery on www.visitbg.de
Coordinates: 43 ° 4 ′ 58 " N , 23 ° 28 ′ 58" E