ABOUT ZHABLIANO MONASTERY “ST. JOHN PRECURSOR”
At the foot of the
Koniavska mountain, under Kurilovo peak, and only at the distance of 2 km. to the south of the Zhabliano village is settled the Zhabliano monastery “St. John Precursor”.
Nobody knows when this monastery was established. But in the period of the Ottoman rule the monastery was destroyed. Later in the XVIII th century the “St. John Precursor” was renewed. Nowadays the monastery is old style active. There is a three – nave, coupon church, built in 1884. There are also and farm buildings. A monastery school was established there in the first half if the XIX th century. Since 1879 to 1881 the abbot of the monastery was eminent the active man in the period of the liberation wars – Averkii Popstoyanov. The monastery is proclaimed a cultural monument.
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