Price: Nowadays Bilinskiya monastery "St. Archangel Michael "is a complex of church and abandoned residential and commercial buildings . Cloister acts periodically and without preceptor . The monastery was built on sloping terraced terrain, the monastery buildings close one right rectangle .
Particular interest in the convent causes the building , greatly dug into the ground . The reason for its construction lies in the strong slope. The eastern part is a one-storey building and the west has three floors. On the top floor are the monks' cells , the other two floors were used as warehouses.
Another important landmark in the monastery church of the same name , which, according to historians , dates from the late XVII century church represents apse , narthex dome building with fused to the central part and a northern entrance. In the altar area can be videni composition " Ascension ", " Christ Ubrus ", " Mary Sheeran heaven" , " Annunciation " and the figures of four liturgist of " Pilgrimage to the victim ." The arch are presented by Christ ' ascension ' , "" God of hosts "and" Christ Pantocrator " with the figures of the Evangelists and medallion is the patron of the church" St. Archangel Michael " . Preserved are the two symmetrical frieze of 14 figure against polufiguri prophets , followed by two rows - scenes from " Holidays " and " Suffering."
During archaeological excavations found Bilinskiya monastery "St. Archangel Michael " was built in the XIV century on the remains of the pre-existing large and fortified monastery. Lives the tradition that , the monastery was founded by the boyar Milutin , the ruler of the neighboring village Yaroslavtsi . For the construction of the monastery boyar solicited personally authorized by the then Byzantine emperor.
Like many monasteries in the Bulgarian lands in XVII-XVIII centuries Bilinskiya also played an important social and health education and religious activity, enriching the spiritual and cultural life of Bulgarians living in the area . In the monastery housed and school . After the liberation , however, life in the monastery fading.
Today Bilinski monastery "St. Archangel Michael " is a monument of culture. It is situated at the foot of the hill of Tsrancha Zavalska Mountain, a mile from the village Bilintsi , 8 km from Breznik and 50 km from Sofia. To reach it , use the exit to the right on the way from Breznik to Tran . In the monastery does not offer accommodation and food.
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