Vrachesh monastery, Orthodox monastery and cultural monument in Vrachesh, Bulgaria.

Vrachesh Monastery is an Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria featuring a simple church structure. The complex contains a single-nave church with a bell tower, surrounded by covered and open spaces near Botevgrad.

The monastery was founded in the 13th century and suffered major damage from attacks in the 15th and 18th centuries. These difficult periods shaped its construction and eventual reconstruction.

The monastery served as a place where monks copied religious texts by hand before becoming a convent in 1937. Visitors can observe how this transformation shaped the community and its daily practices.

The monastery lies 5 km west of Vrachesh and 10 km from Botevgrad, in the western Balkan Mountains. The monastic holy spring is on the right bank of the river near the complex, and the ruins of the Gradishte (Cheshkovgrad) fortress stand on the steep hill above. The site is an active convent and a declared monument of culture.

The monastery church, built in 1891 by Vuno Markov, is a single-nave, single-apse structure without a dome, with an inner and an open narthex and a bell tower above it. A chapel dedicated to Saint Clement of Ohrid was later added inside one of the residential buildings.