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The "Transfiguration" Monastery is known as Novachenski monastery. It is located in the Baktun area, near the Novachenskiya gorge at the Bebresh river below the peak Kreshta in Stara Planina.
The "Transfiguration" Monastery was founded during the Second Bulgarian Empire. It was destroyed by the Turks, and in the seventeenth century (1608) was restored by St. Pimen of Sofia. In the nineteenth century (1864) it was again destroyed, and in 1930 it was restored. It is now operating regularly.
The monastery is a complex of single-nave and apse church (built in 1930) with preserved fragments of frescoes - remainings of the old church building. At the Archaeological Museum of BAS is stored the altar door of the old church.
Next to the Novachenskiya monastery is located the cave Mecha dupka (“Bear Hole”). The monastery is located four kilometers from the village of Skravena.
The "Transfiguration" Monastery was founded during the Second Bulgarian Empire. It was destroyed by the Turks, and in the seventeenth century (1608) was restored by St. Pimen of Sofia. In the nineteenth century (1864) it was again destroyed, and in 1930 it was restored. It is now operating regularly.
The monastery is a complex of single-nave and apse church (built in 1930) with preserved fragments of frescoes - remainings of the old church building. At the Archaeological Museum of BAS is stored the altar door of the old church.
Next to the Novachenskiya monastery is located the cave Mecha dupka (“Bear Hole”). The monastery is located four kilometers from the village of Skravena.
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