Church of the Holy Mother of God,The first records date back to IX – X century. The church was dedicated to the Mother of God, Virgin Mary early on. During the Ottoman invasion in Bulgarian lands and after the conquest of the city in 1371, the monastery near the church was demolished and completely destroyed.From 1844 to 1845, craftsmen from Bratzigovo constructed a large new church, built entirely of stone. On 25 December 1859 and again on 10 January 1860 the bishop of Plovdiv Paisius held a service in Bulgarian language and publicly announced that his congregation denounced the Greek Patriarch of Istanbul which became a great scandal and Plovdiv became the most radical center for the struggle of the autonomy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.