Church “Sveti duh” – “Holly Spirit”

In 1909 when the building of the church started, Hasovitsa is still under ottoman slavery. The border at this time was with Rozhen village. People of the village, all with Christian religion decided to build a temple without a permission of the Turkish authority. In the beginning all were included – children who went to school in Ustovo village, hide in their bags sand from the “Byala reka” / White river/ and brought it to the builders. They worked at the light of a paraffin lamp. In the same time local men guarded the mountain if Turkish army came. So, that is how the church was built higher that the permitted height – 8 m to the dome and the whole temple is 200 m2 surfaces. After the church was built the Turkish superior came and cries out: “It’s a miracle! Allah built you a Christian temple!” The authority decided to give the temple permission instead of destroying it. This sultan permission is in the church and you can see it. Two years after in Hasovitsa came metropolitan Milety from the Bulgarian exarchate to bless this house of God.

Temples in the region

In 2004 people from the village decide to restore the old temple “Sveti Spas”. The famous Bulgarian graphic artist Plamen Chernev, who also has a villa in Hasovitsa, makes the paintings in the temple. Everyone says that these paintings are the most beautiful in the whole region. People from the village, called Hasovtsi, visit the chapel “ Sveti Iliya” and the monastery “Sveti Elisey” which are in the forest near the village.

In 2008 people from Hasovitsa and the closer village – Pisanitsa restore and built the church “Sveti duh”.

Mineral springs

Near the village there is a healing mineral spring which local people call “ Maikata” / Mother/ because it helps barren women to become pregnant and give men great power. Once someone drinks this water – he feels young and powerful. The name of the region where is the mineral spring is the same from ages – “Kuruvitsa” – from the Turkish word “kuru” – dry tree. The translation has to be like – “the spring near the dry tree”. Till now shepherds find copper coins around the spring.