German monastery St. Ivan Rilski is owned by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. It is located in losensky valley, 5 kilometres from the German village and just 15 kilometers from Sofia. The German monastery is recognized as one of the most ancient monasteries of Bulgaria: it was founded under Peter in the X century, when only began to spread the veneration Ivan Rilski.

As the story goes, during the Byzantine period the monastery was supposed to have the gifts of Alexios I Comnenus, Emperor. And in the period of Turkish occupation, the monastery was repeatedly destroyed. Fully the monastery was restored in the XVII century. Updated the first monastery in 1801, and again in 1818, when the Abbot Antipas added to the monastery complex another building – stone single-nave Church, dug into the ground. In the same year were updated housing construction. From the temple to have survived intact the crucifixion, the inscription on which pinpoints 1818, the year of construction. It is assumed that in the same year took place the consecration of the restored Church.

From 1870 to 1912 the Abbot was Haji Nicephorus, and helped his brother, the monk Kirill. When running in a monastic farm consisted of at least 150 hectares of meadows and cornfields, water mill, and about 150 cattle and small ruminants.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, after the liberation of the country, the monastery was again updated. The old Church was demolished and in its place the master of Slatina built a new one. The material they used hewn stone, which added three decorative brick rows, and the outer corners were adorned with smooth slabs of stone. The Church was crowned by a wooden dome, pressed tin. Later was added the ten-porch. Icons that adorned the old Church, were subsequently transferred to the historical Museum of Sofia.

Interesting fact: in 1890-ies in the German monastery visited Bulgarian king Ferdinand, who landed in front of North gate Church two sequoias that grow here so far.

The Church and monastery buildings were again restored in the 1960-ies.