The Troyan Monastery is known above all for the creative work of Zahari Zograph who painted both the exterior and the interior of the main church built in 1835, 7km from the town of Troyan.

 A chronicle dates back the foundation of the monastery in the year 1600; nothing but the throne stone of the church remains from that time.

 In 1872 Vasil Levski set up here a secret revolutionary committee, which was joined by all the monks headed by the Father Superior Macarius.

 Most of the great works of old and National Revival art have survived. The iconostasis of the main church made in 1839 is a  masterpriece of woodcarving.

 Amazing in its originality, is much earlier –
1794 carving of the holy altar gates in the St. Nikola Chapel.