The Kazanluk monastery "Virgin Mary" in the town of Kazanluk was built in the period 1864-1866. The monastery sustained the horrors of the Turkish violence during the Liberation War when the church and the housing buildings were used as warehouses. After the Liberation the monastery was restored and widened by adding new buildings. The church is a single-chamber building. Its interior was painted by the artist Petko Iliev from Kazanluk who broke the Revival mural tradition and worked in the spirit of the contemporary clerical mural paintings of the Western Europe. All these images were damaged by the unfavourable conditions for preservation during the Liberation War. The church is famous for its big wood-carved iconostasis made in Russia. The housing buildings have the characteristic traits of the Revival architecture and date from XIX and XX c.
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Icon of the Virgin Mary
