Price: If Batulia monastery "St. Nicholas ' offers accommodation , you may be able to sleep in "rooms Stambolijski ." They are called two western rooms in the monastery, which spent the night in the summer of 1920 the Prime Minister of Bulgaria in the Agrarian Government ( 1919-1923 ) Alexander Stambolijski . He was a personal friend of the builder of the building at the monastery - Pop Emmanuel Zlatkov .
Orthodox Monastery is part of the Sofia Mala Sveta Gora and acting . Located in Murgash share of the Balkan Mountains , on the right bank of the river Batuliyska about 30 km north of Sofia , 14 km southeast of Svogbe , 4 km east of the station Rebrovo (hence depart from the main road , Sofia city ) and 1 km northeast of the village Batulia .
From a plaque located on the wall of the inn to cloisters , we know that the building was constructed in 1913 during the reign of Exarch Joseph and Sofia Metropolitan Partenii .
Today the monastery complex consists of a church , two electricity and water buildings , stone fountain and bell tower . The church has a nave and apse , without a dome . Her yard is dominated by impressive vertical rock, which completes the Stara Planina mountain, on which was built the monastery . On top of the rock is battered metal big rite cross . On October 29, 2011 the church of the monastery was endowed with unique ceramic icon of St. Nicholas, 45h71 cm, gift of master ceramicist Lucy - Doichinova Ludmila and her husband Sergi .
The current church was consecrated in 1911 by the Sofia Metropolitan Partenii . It was built on the site of an older church , destroyed during the Ottoman rule . Height above the monastery stand the remains of a fort - probably watchtower , which have not been studied and therefore dated.
The monastery "St. Nikolai " You can walk or drive on a dirt steep road to the right of the anti-fascist monument in the center of the village . Another option is by train, get off at a station Rebrovo .
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