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The Troyan Monastery
Troyan, Bulgaria

I found this photo on a random search of my last name. It turns
out that there's a town called Troyan in central Bulgaria and in
this town there's this monastery (or something like that). Anyway,
here's some text that I pulled from the site about it:
The TROYAN MONASTERY must have been in existence long before
the l5th century, as legends suggest. It flourished again about
the year 1600. From the oldest church it is only the throne stone
that has been preserved. Towards the beginning of the l9th century
the monastic brotherhood re-erected the monastery. In 1835 master
Konstantin built a wonderful main church which was painted by Zahari
Zograph in 1847-1849. The spacious residential wings with roomy
verandas were built in 1835-1855. In 1865 a tower was raised in
the monastery courtyard with a winter church and a belfry on the
last floor.
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