Back Divotino Monastery of the Holy Trinity

Divotino Monastery of the Holy Trinity is located 4 km south-west of Bankya (Mihaylovo quarter), in a secluded riverside spot in the wooded slopes of Lyulin Mountain.

The monastery church is dated to the Ottoman period, possibly the 16th/17th centuries.
It was renovated in the early 20th century. Today the church has new murals – part of an overall reconstruction of Divotino monastery.

There is also a newly built chapel at the entrance of the monastery. The monastery is a monastic community, well-kept and maintaining full-bodied spiritual life and liturgical worship. The holy place is astonishingly beautiful – another reason as of why it is visited by thousands of Christians.

The monasteries are in different states of preservation – from completely destroyed to fully functioning. The common thing among them is their initial monastic vocation and the fact that they are in the gravitational field of the Bulgarian capital.
How many are the monasteries of Sofia Holy Mount?
They number approximately 40, but a definite figure is impossible to set down, as archaeological remains of ancient monasteries continue to be found nowadays too; new ones are being erected as well.
Here is the current list of the monasteries of Sofia Holy Mount:

Balsha Monastery of St Theodore Stratelates Bistritsa Monastery of St Petka Bistritsa Monastery of Sts Joachim and Anna Boyana Monastery of Sts Nikola and Panteleymon Buhovo Monastery of St Michael the Archangel
Buhovo Monastery of St Mary Magdalene Vladaya Monastery of St Petka German Monastery of St John of Rila Gorna Banya Monastery of Sts Kiryl and Methodius Gorni Bogrov Monastery of St George
Divotino Monastery of the Holy Trinity Dolni Bogrov Monastery of Sts Peter and Paul Dragalevtsi Monastery of Virgin Mary of Vitosha Darvenitsi Monastery of St Eliah Eleshnisa Monastery of St Virgin Mary of Vitosha
Ilientsi Monastery of St Elijah the Prophet Klisura Monastery of St Petka Kladnitsa Monastery of St Nicholas Knyazhevo Monastery of St Apostle Luke Kokalyane Monastery of St Michael the Archangel
Katina Monastery of the Holy Forty Martyrs Kurilo Monastery of St John of Rila Lozen Monastery of the Holy Trinity Lozen Monastery of St Saviour Lozen Monastery of St Dimitar
Lozen Monastery of Sts Peter and Paul Kazichene Monastery of the Nativity of Virgin Mary Kremikovtsi Monastery of St George Marchaevo Monastery of the Holy Trinity Obradovtsi Monastery of St Mina
Obradovtsi Monastery of the Three Saints Pancharevo Monastery of St Nicholas Letni Pasarel Monastery of Sts Peter and Paul Podgumer Monastery of St Dimitar Ravno Pole Monastery of the Holy Forty Martyrs
Seslavtsi Monastery of St Nicholas Suhodol Monastery of the Holy Trinity Chelopech Monastery of St Virgin Mary Chepintsi Monastery of the Three Saints Shiyakovtsi Monastery of St Michael the Archangel