Kurile monastery "St. Ivan Rilski" - History

Reverend St. John (Ivan) Rila

The monastery is located in the village of Kourilo 1st Bulgarian Empire at the beginning of slavery Turks destroyed it . In 1593 it was restored by the people in the surrounding villages . Since then church has a basilica with two porch , painted in 1596 by Pimen Zografski since survived several images of saints and scenes . Relatively well preserved is the composition " Assumption" . Saints of full-length differ images of St. Panteleimon and St. Konstantin and Elena. In 1816 , when the abbot Vincent , the church was re- written , but not so artistic . In 1830 the church was pristroyava inner hall, where painted image of St. Ivan Rilski , which is connected to the composition Prayer , along with Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist . At the beginning of the 20th century Kourilo convent had 45 nuns and printing of Christian literatura.V Nowadays the monastery monks will , but it is still operational.