The monastery St. Kirik and Julita

The monastery St. Kirik and Julita is situated above the town of Asenovgrad, in the north slopes of Rodopa Mountain, in the middle of beautiful broad-leaved forest, where you can see the whole Thracian lowland from. There is information that it was built in the 14th century near a healing spring. The monastery St. Kirik and Julita is the largest in the Rodopa Mountain. It was destroyed and burnt down several times. In its today appearance it was rebuilt in 1819. It is a complex of a church, surrounded by massive two-storey buildings. The monastery church St. Petka is a large three-hall, one-dome temple with a narthex. The church was sanctified in October 15, 1850. During the struggles for national ecclesiastical independence the monastery belonged to the Greeks until the 1930, when it became Bulgarian property again. In 1943-1944 it was turned into a concentration camp St. Kirik. After a basic reconstruction, in September 24, 1985 the president of the Bulgarian Union of Architects, Georgi Stoilov, officially reopened the monastery. In the beginning it was used as a rest and art base of the Union. Now the monastery is a three-star hotel.

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