The Zelenikovets monastery “St. John the Baptist” is an active monastery of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and a summer residence of the Bulgarian patriarch. It is situated in the picturesque area "Zelenikovets" of the Troyan part of the Balkan Mountain, about 8km to the southeast of the Troyan monastery and about 5km to the south of Cherni Osam village. It is a complex of church and several residential and commercial…