The Dragalevtzi Monastery "Virgin Mary" is from the group of monasteries which sprang up at the end of XIV and XV c. around Sofia, known with the complex name of Sofia's Sacred Forest. The monastery was mentioned in the Vitosha's gold honorary diploma of the Bulgarian king Ivan Shishman which tells about its relation to the Second Bulgarian Kingdom. The monastery was renovated and the church was decorated in 1476 with the money of the founder - the boyar Radoslav Mavar from Sofia. From the old monastery complex is preserved only the church. It is a single-nave, single-apside building. In building style it resembles the other churches built in the period of XV c. The church was decorated with remarkable in terms of quality murals. From the original paintings are preserved the following: "Pilat's court", "Judah returns the silver coins", "Judah's hanging", "Peter's Recantation". The bigger part of the walls is covered with murals from a later period. The Dragalevtzi monastery was an important literary centre in the Sofia Region. Several manuscript books are known with the names of their scribblers, who worked in this monastery: priest Nikola, who rewrote a gospel in 1469; an unknown grammarian who rewrote the Dragalevtzi's Gospel, decorated with silver facing in 1534; the three brothers Danail, Stoyan and Vladimir who rewrote and decorated a Psalter, which was later on moved to the Aton's monastery "Iviron".
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