The Cherepishki Monastery is hugged among the picturesque rocks of the gorge of the Iskar River near the village of Lyutibrod, Vratza District. During the first half of XVII c., when the Turkish oppressors allowed the construction of new cult buildings, the Cherepishki Monastery was restored at the site of the old one which was demolished by the Ottoman invasions. The scarce resources and the requirements of the enslavers determined the modest character of the new church. With the development of the monastery new buildings were erected such as: "Metodievoto zdanie", "Vlashkata sgrada", the old abbot's building, the guest house, the Rashid's house, the Chema's building, the school, the Danail's building, the warehouses, the chapel with the charnel house, the belfry etc. The murals of the Cherepishki monastery are not well-preserved but there is written evidence depicting the rich historical life of the monastery and its surroundings. In the period 1390-1395 one of the oldest preserved manuscripts was written here - the monastery's regulations. In this monastery were written and decorated two gospels - one of which is with gold incrustations. The Cherepishki monastery was a big educational center of the Bulgarian culture during the hard period of the Ottoman domination. The monastery's treasure of works of the ecclesiastic art includes some icons from the beginning of the past century, the old part of the wood-carved iconostasis and the bishop's throne. Interesting is also the silver reliquary made by two goldsmiths in 1792 and the embroidered shroud from 1844.
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