The Dragalevtzi Monastery "Virgin Mary" is from the group of monasteries which have sprung up at the end of XIV and XV c. around Sofia, known with the complex name of Sofia's Sacred Forest. The monastery is mentioned in the Vitosha's gold honorary diploma of the Bulgarian king Ivan Shishman which tells about its relation to the Second Bulgarian Kingdom. The monastery has been renovated and the church decorated in 1476 with the money of the founder - the boyar Radoslav Mavar from Sofia. From the old monastery complex is preserved only the church. It is a single-nave, single-apside building. In building style it resembles the other churches built in the period of XV c. The church is decorated with remarkable in terms of quality murals. From the original paintings are preserved the following: "Pilat's court", "Judah returns the silver coins", "Judah's hanging", "Peter's Recantation". The bigger part of the walls is covered with murals from a later period. The Dragalevtzi monastery has been an important literary centre in the Sofia Region. Several manuscript books are known with the names of their scribblers, who have worked in this monastery: priest Nikola, who rewrites a gospel in 1469; an unknown grammarian who has rewritten the Dragalevtzi's Gospel, decorated with silver facing in 1534; the three brothers Danail, Stoyan and Vladimir who rewrite and decorate a Psalter, which is later on moved to the Aton's monastery "Iviron".