The Church of the Dormition of the virgin is an ancient city temple in Asenovgrad, known since ancient times. During the long period of its existence has been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt.

The first time the temple was destroyed in 1189, the crusaders of Frederick Barbarossa, and ten years later, when the Bulgarian ruler Ivan Asen I, the Church began to recover. Soon, however, the Church was once again destroyed. Rebuilt its citizens under Ivan Asen II. Updated and again the Church did not last long – only until 1600, when it was destroyed by the Turkish military detachment under the leadership of Hasan-hodaa.

In 1765 Dimo Georgiev and Georgi Dimov, residents of the neighboring town of Kostur, went to Constantinople to obtain permission for the reconstruction of the destroyed temple. Parishioners in that period put candles directly on the ruins. As a result, the Church was rebuilt in the same year. The two images (the Holy virgin Alsusa and of Christ the Savior) and the corporal were brought from mount Athos, where the monastery of Vatopedi.

Work on the reconstruction of the iconostasis of the temple was held in 1811. The iconostasis was made by master woodcarvers Costa Kaliym and Costa Musicover, they did it in ten years. Craftsmen also carved on the gate of the Royal lion with a scepter is an ancient coat of arms of Bulgaria. Over the North gate came the awakening lion with the axe in mighty paws, and over the South a lion that breaks the coffin and takes out of it dead. Church icons were written by Hristo Dimitrov and his sons, Demetrius and Zachary Zograf.

The Church today has a Museum, which kept the old icons, Church plate and liturgical vessels. There was a place for printed books, among which was the Irmologion, dated 1825 year, and many of the engravings in the Rila monastery and icons from mount Athos.