MINI-EUROPE is regular to expand! In the apparition of the Bulgarian Prophet of Intellect STEFAN DANAILOV and Minister-President of the Walloon Fill RUDY DEMOTTE, MINI-EUROPE revealed the RILA MONASTERY from Bulgaria. Last the Air France Airbus A380, the Millennium Battlement of Magdeburg and the Thermal Baths of Szecheny, it is the fourth new close of 2008. This new statuette is perceptive to create the business of Mini-Europe an even optional extra majestic picture of Europe, and the countries and cultures that outline it.
The Rila Monastery is not solitary Mini-Europe's experimental monastery, but in addition to, for the experimental time, it represents the Obedient religion to which a sizeable scale of Europeans belong. The Obedient religion forms the improper of the Cyrillic alphabet, whose bicentenary is critical by Bulgarians every rendezvous on 24 May. The Rila Monastery is a brand aura of the Bulgarian spirit, as it has yet been the divan of the Bulgarian Obedient tradition, carefully from side to side the Ottoman profession. Additionally, the monastery is resplendent with its superlatively festooned inner square and a church dating from the nine-teenth century.
The Rila Monastery was founded in the tenth century by students of Saint John of Rila, a outsider who was later canonized by the Obedient Church. In the tenth century, he moved out his life at the monastery in Rouen to move to the uncultivable Rila Mountains, and even in the surrounding area of the bizarre bottomless valleys of the Rilski Branch. A monastic community formed sharply John, and they founded the monastery at the rear of his death in 946.
The pied-?-terre for ascetics and the caves were sanctuaries, and were gradually convinced taking part in a monastery demanding that played an outdo segment in the social and spiritual life of Bulgaria from side to side the Center Ages. The monastery was moderately ruined by a fire in the primeval nineteenth century, and was rebuilt between 1834 and 1862, instant the parts which abscond the fire remained intact.
The Monastery of Saint John of Rila is a symbol of the Slavic culture at the rear of a yearn period of profession and despotism by the Turks, which prepared it a children's home place of pilgrimage for Bulgarians. It can be seen as the devout centre of the Bulgarian Obedient Church, and an visage of Bulgarian cultural character. The monastery is in addition to an perfect of the Bulgarian Residential home Regeneration from the eighteenth and nineteenth century. To the same extent 1961, the Rila Monastery has been a children's home museum and in 1983, it was affirmed a UNESCO Terrain Bequest Purpose.
Later than all the other monuments at Mini-Europe, the monastery is built to a extent of 1/25th. The exceptional square shape of the monastery is 5.90 m yearn and 5.20 m yawning.
"Mini-Europe is victorious to add this statuette, which was co-financed by Bulgaria, to its standard," thought the playground authority.
