Church of St. Week (Week of Light) - now inactive Orthodox church, which turned into a museum. It is located in Batak, and the church received its name in honor of Kyriakos Nicomedia, the holy martyrs of the early Christian who had been tortured ruler Nicomedia Maximian Galerius.

Construction of the church was completed in 1813, and it lasted for 75 days and as masters were made by residents of Batak. The very construction of a cross-domed building made entirely of stone. The doors are carved from oak, and the temple is surrounded by high stone walls.

In different periods of the church priests were Dimitar Paunov, Ilya Yankov, Pyotr drank, Nacho Pawnee monk Kirill (the spiritual father of V. Levski) and also monk Nicephorus. Also important fact that church services at the temple were always in the language of Church Slavonic and never - Greek. Teaching the priest says in the native Bulgarian.

During the April Uprising, the last stronghold of the rebels was exactly batashskih Church of the Holy Week. Since 1878, since the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, the church is no longer used for worship. In it it was placed the remains of those killed in the massacre Batashkovskoy 1876, when the Janissaries killed nearly 5,000 peaceful citizens.

Since 1955, the church is a state museum, and in 1977 - a monument of national historic proportions.