St. Nicolas Orphanage & St. Trinity Monastery

The work of creating St. Nicolas Orphanage started in 1988 in the yard of St. Trinity Church in Novy Khan ubder the supervision of the Church Board of Trustees and with the blessing of His Holiness Maxim, Patriarch of Bulgaria. We continue to build the main building and expand it, so that we can accept more homeless children.

The construction works started with 240 Euro only. Since the very beginning and untill now the Orphanage has been supported and maintained by private donations only. We have not asked the Church or the Government for funding.

We are very grateful to our friends from Netherlands who helped a lot in the work of building our Home. 1n 1992, the theology professor Tucker from Eppe, Netherlands, contacted professor Stoyanov from the Theology Academy in Sofia with the intent to help in some way the East Orthodox Church, and thus he was given our address. He organized students from Eppe to come for 3 consecutive summers and take part in the building of the Home. Our friends from Netherlands not only provided the money, but they donated a car and a tractor.

From this time, already 15 years have passed by. With much love and appreciation we humbly offer some pictures from the unforgettable summer days when the foundations were laid. Please, if you recognize your friends, send them the link to our site, so that they know, that we remember them and we mention them in our prays. Foto album.

Untill today (2007) more than 250 persons have found shelter, warm food and clothing here. Homeless people can live here untill they manage to find themselves a living.

In April 2007 in the orphanage live 67 people - 35 children and 32 - over 16 years of age.