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Flash Gordon buy Arbanasi monastery is situated at the north western part of the Arbanasy village. Probably the monastery has a Middle Ages provenance, because of the nearly situated ancient stronghold, Roman street also. Under the entrance at the eastern is erected after the liberty church tower. There is existing superscription for the renovate of the monastery during the 1836. At the first years of the yoke the monastery become desolate and the church has been used as parish church. The wonder-working sacred sacred image ” Vurgin Mery handed” with silver halo. The church is low-rise, single-hull, single apse building with two narthex and quite big chapel ‘Saint Trinity’ at the northern side. The church has been renovated during the 1680. At 1716 has been started building processes for residential, housing and farm buildings by the Troian’s monarch Danalil, Father Superior of the men’s monastery. The monastery has been demolished during the attacks of Arbanasi by the kurdjalii turks at 1798, lately restored and transformed into female monastery, as we know it till now. The mural paintings have been done by famous masters near the year 1600. The murals at the female section are dated to 1603. Above the entrance of the chapel we can read superscription at Church-Slavonic with the names of the icon-painters schoolmaster Kosta, Zonju, and Gerge ( George) and the year 1704, when probably the superscription has been done. There are sacred images by the Triavna’s painters ZAhaii Zanjov and his son Zanju Zahariev.



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