The Monastery of Saint John of Rila, also known as Rila Monastery ("Sveti Ivan Rilski" (Bulgarian: Рилски манастир „Свети Иван Рилски“), is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is situated in the southwestern Rila Mountains, 117 km (73 mi) south of the capital Sofia in the deep valley of the Rilska River ("Rila River") at an elevation of 1,147 m (3,763 ft) above sea level, inside of Rila Monastery Nature Park. The monastery is named after its founder, the hermit Saint Ivan of Rila (876 – 946 AD), and houses around 60 monks. The monastery is a popular pilgrimage site for many Orthodox Christians.
Founded in the 10th century, Rila Monastery is regarded as one of Bulgaria's most important cultural, historical and architectural monuments and is a key tourist attraction for both Bulgaria and Southern Europe for religious tourists. In 2008 alone it attracted 900,000 visitors.[1] The monastery is depicted on the reverse of the 1 lev banknote issued in 1999.[2]
^Bulgaria's Rila Monastery Builds Hydro Power Plant with EU Money, Novinite, 10 December 2011.
^Bulgarian National Bank. Currency out of Circulation for Which the Term of Exchange has not Expired: 1 lev. – Retrieved on 29 Septembre 2019.
The Monastery of Saint John of Rila, also known as RilaMonastery ("Sveti Ivan Rilski" (Bulgarian: Рилски манастир „Свети Иван Рилски“), is the largest...
Central Rila Reserve, RilaMonastery Forest, Ibar and Skakavitsa. The most recognisable landmark of the mountain range is the RilaMonastery, Bulgaria's...
many churches in his honor, including the famous RilaMonastery. One of these churches, Saint John of Rila was only discovered in 2008 in the town of Veliko...
RilaMonastery Nature Park (Bulgarian: Природен парк „Рилски манастир“) is one of the largest nature parks in Bulgaria, spanning a territory of 252.535 km2...
Church Madara Rider Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo Kazanlak Nessebar RilaMonastery Sveshtari Pirin Srebarna Primeval Forests Tourism in Bulgaria is a significant...
is known for reconstructing the RilaMonastery of Saint Ivan of Rila, Bulgaria's largest and more important monastery, in 1334–1335. Hrelja was first...
Kazanlak, the RilaMonastery, the Boyana Church, the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo and the ancient city of Nesebar. The RilaMonastery was established...
in 1994 to RilaMonastery, where it was reinterred.[citation needed] A wood carving is placed on the left side of his grave in RilaMonastery, made on 10...
working as a teacher in the RilaMonastery, he also spent time working in Samokov (1827–1831), then back in the monastery, then went to Gabrovo and Koprivshtitsa...
of the time, who also painted the central church of the RilaMonastery, the largest monastery in Bulgaria. Many of the "moral and social experiments"...
prayers read during Lent. The first two fragments were discovered in the RilaMonastery in 1845 by the Russian historian Viktor Grigorovich. Today, they are...
3, part 2. The Great Book of Needs[permanent dead link], St Tikhon's Monastery Press January 27, The Recovery of the Holy Relics of our Father among...
towers on either side of the gatehouse. Hrelja's fortified tower in the RilaMonastery, Bulgaria. A rectangular and a round tower projecting from the wall...
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia Bachkovo Monastery Boyana Church Church of St. George, Sofia RilaMonastery Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo Roman Tomb (Silistra)...
for the armed guard units of the RilaMonastery in Ottoman-ruled Bulgaria. In the 19th century, the RilaMonastery Pandurs numbered around 40 and they...
dressed in tin which was donated by him to the Rilamonastery in Bulgaria is on display in the monastery museum. Murad also furnished the content of Kitabü’l-Menamat...
Vysokopetrovsky Monastery and Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has three stauropegic monasteries: RilaMonastery Bachkovo Monastery Troyan...
Zograf Monastery in Athon; Bachkovo Monastery near Asenovgrad or the RilaMonastery. Although destroyed several times, the overall plan of the later follows...
Printing Issue Withdrawal Lapse [1] [2] 1 lev 112 × 60 mm Ivan Rilski RilaMonastery Rampant lion 1999 5 July 1999 1 January 2016 Indefinitely [3] [4] 2...
of the RilaMonastery and that of the Etropole Monastery. However, while the Lopushna Monastery church takes inspiration from the RilaMonastery for its...
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