![]() Overview of the Etropole Monastery with the main church and the living quarters | |
Monastery information | |
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Other names | Varovitets |
Order | Bulgarian Orthodox |
Denomination | Bulgarian Orthodox Church |
Established | 12th or 13th century |
Dedicated to | Holy Trinity |
Celebration date | Pentecost |
Controlled churches | 1 main church, 2 chapels |
People | |
Important associated figures | Vasil Levski |
Site | |
Location | Near Etropole, Sofia Province, Bulgaria |
Coordinates | 42°49′25.6″N 24°2′13.9″E / 42.823778°N 24.037194°E |
The Etropole Monastery of the Holy Trinity (Bulgarian: Етрополски манастир „Света Троица”, Etropolski manastir „Sveta Troitsa”), also known as Varovitets (Варовитец), is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery near the town of Etropole in west-central Bulgaria. The monastery was founded in the 12th or 13th century, its heyday being from the 16th to the 18th century when, thanks to its prolific scriptoria, it was the dominant literary centre of Ottoman-ruled northern Bulgaria. In its present form, the monastery includes a large mid-19th-century church and two chapels.