The patriarch's monastery "Sveta Troitza" /Holy Trinity/, Veliko Tarnovo District, was built under the western slopes of the Arbanassi's Plateau, hugged under the beautiful steep rocks of the eastern slope of the canyon-shaped gorge of the Yantra River. The monastery has existed ever since the period of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom. It was one of the centres of spiritual life and was supported by the aristocracy. Here was made the famous writing reform in the ancient Bulgarian writing style which was afterwards distributed all over the Slavic countries. Monk Evtimii, who was chosen for a patriarch in 1371, worked in this monastery. After the fall of Bulgaria under the Ottoman yoke the monastery was plundered and destroyed.
In 1847 the monastery was renovated but no one can tell whether the renovated complex is at exactly the same place of the old monastery. Some remains of old buildings were discovered to the north of the present-day monastery in XIX c. Kolyo Ficheto built a new church which was seriously damaged after the earthquake in 1913. During repair works in 1927 many of the original parts, built by the Revival period master-builder were changed and simplified.
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Irrespective of the fact that the historic and artistic values of the monastery "Sveta Troitza" were plundered, destroyed or scattered, it has preserved some masterpieces till present days such as: the magnificent icon "Archangel Michael" from 1663 and that of the "Holy Trinity" from 1708. The iconostasis of the monastery church has interesting icons of "Saint Atanasii", "Virgin Mary" (1861), "Jesus the Almighty", "The New Testament Trinity", "Joan the Baptist" and beautiful wood-carved royal gates from XIX c.
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Icon of the Holy Trinity - Old Testament
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