Shipka Monastery "Nativity"
Location
- Population placeShipka
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Contacts
- Phone
- E-mail
- Working hours9-17.00
- Closed
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"Nativity" is the catholicon of the Orthodox Shipka Monastery in the town of Shipka, Kazanlak municipality. The church has been declared a temple-monument and a cultural monument of national importance. It is included in the list of the Hundred National Tourist Sites of the Bulgarian Tourist Union under № 92. It is dedicated to the heroes of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). An ossuary has been built in its dungeons, in which the bones of nearly 9,000 Russian and Bulgarian soldiers who died in Bulgaria during the Liberation War are stored.