The monastery named "St. Nikolai "is located 14 meters from Veliko Tarnovo. In place of today's announcement for artistic monument monastery was an old temple. In XIX century as an important religious center in the monastery church school was opened. Treptih- monument from 1700 found in the monastery. It is stored in the Archaeological Museum in Sofia. Preserved frieze carvings and altar gates of HVІІІv. Very interesting icons can be seen on the iconostasis in the main church, and beyond.

The monastery is a functioning monastery. On December 6 to celebrate the church holiday. The monastery offers accommodation.until the cold gets to them, as the building is unheated.

With its brick exterior painted white with black trim and lettering to evoke an old picture, RayKo is a gritty counterweight to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, just two blocks away. Sandy Phillips, who built the photography program at SFMOMA before retiring as senior curator last year, is among RayKo’s biggest fans.

“It has consistently supported the community of photography in the Bay Area with a fine and ambitious exhibition program and a wonderfully catholic program to support the teaching and making of photographs, including old technologies,” says Phillips. “We would miss it deeply in this community.”

RayKo opened in 1991 as a for-profit business named for Man Ray, and Kogod, a trust funder, arts benefactor, philanthropist and