Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
Rila Monastery Nature Park
Management Plan (Draft) – Appendices
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Appendix № 4
LIST OF DESIGNATED MONUMENTS OF CULTURE IN THE RILA HOLY
MONASTERY AREA
Issued by the Minister of Culture,
promulgated, SG, No. 73 dated September 8,1992
item 4, section 3, No. 587
Pursuant to article 12, paragraph 4 of Regulation No. 5 of the Committee for Culture
dated 1979 on the finding, studying and documenting of immovable monuments of
culture (SG, No. 6 dated 1979) The Ministry of Culture declares the following
monuments of culture:
I. The Rila Monastery including:
1. the Monastery;
1.1. the wings of the monastery building;
1.2. Holy Mary’s Birth monastery chapel;
1.3. Hreliova tower;
1.4. monastery yard;
2. monastery utility buildings outside the monastery proper;
2.1. washing facility;
2.2. a two-story building – residence for servants and a school (post office);
2.3. bakery;
2.4. wood storage (shop and inn);
2.5. abbot’s office (reception);
2.6. coal storage (hospital);
2.7. powder room (not used);
3. monastery cemetery;
3.1. church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin;
3.2. residential building;
3.3. cemetery;
4. James Boucher’s grave;
as a group architectural, artistic and historic monument of culture, a complex
of national significance, with the following boundaries: south-western, from point 1
(formed by the crossing of a perpendicular line from the middle of the western wing
with the Rilska river bank – as far as point 2., which is 100m from the middle of the
western wing and 120m away from point 1); north-western, passing at 40m along the
northern wing – from point 2 to point 3, the distance between which is 280m; north,
following at 90m along the bend in the northern wing – from point 3 to point 4, the
distance between which is 90m, and from item 4 along the forest line as far as point 5
which is 180m from the northern corner of the eastern wing; north eastern, following
along the eastern wing from point 5 to point 6, the distance between which is 90m;
south-eastern – along the Manastirska river bank from point 6 to point 1.
IІ. The John of Rila Grave complex including:
1. the church Assumption of John of Rila;
2. John of Rila’s bone vault;
3. yard;