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The first cloistral churches appear in the second half of IX cen. The head temple is from an flimsy and ephemeral case- it transgresses from basilica plan to kross church gradually. The building has been with three apses from east, In Each and every one It That A dinner table has had separate alltar. That It is echo from the senior east christian tradition that it to one altar cannot be served two times in the calendar day. From confederacy a small chapel with a grave of a famous christian missionary is added up on the other hand.
The present monastery complex is dated back in IX cen. For defense for enemy offenses, he is cordoned off with an enthralled wall, intensified with eight towers.
The capital church has is flamboyantly decked at the cloister. The walls are as well stirred with rows of rock and brick, different blind arches and alcoves. It has had numerous details on marble in the inside. To The second moiety of XII cen. The temple is wholly mapped with images of soldiers sainthoods, ecclesiastical fathers, a religious eremites. On those murals a circumscription graffito of oldbulgarian language from which ancient name at monastery became known was seen.
In the abbey has been closely built - up with buildings internally. In the second half of XI In . A small chapel is glued in the capital church in a north. The refectory for the dominicans is from east revealed. She is on the other hand tagged on the massive home palace of the abbot that is at the same time a bishop of the entire domain.
The archaeological surveys have showed that the brethrens have lived affluent,, and the monastery has been really rich. She is plundered and destroyed by the knights of the fourth crusade at the beginning to XIII. She is recovered,, but in XIV cen it is again burned down and at last abandoned this time by turks. The centuries stack on the ruins a thirty-meter barrow.