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The Troyan Monastery is located 7 km from the town of Troyan Bulgaria. It is most noted for the creative work of Zahari Zograph who painted both the exterior and the interior of the main church. A chronicle dates back the foundation of the monastery in the year 1600; nothing but the throne stone of the church remains from the time. Particularly valuable among the monastery's multitude of manuscripts and incunabula are the so-called Troyan Homilies of the 17th century.

Vassil Levski set up a secret revolutionary committee at Troyan monastery in 1872, which was joined by all the monks and headed by the Father Superior Macarius. Four years later, the monastery became a citadel of the 1876 'April Uprising' against Bulgaria's Turkish captors.