Monastery of Saints Peter and Paul is located at an altitude of 1650 meters above sea level in the Western Rhodopes, near the tourist center of Byala Cherkva, 30 km south-west of the city of Plovdiv. It is the highest situated monastery in Bulgaria.

Abode is also one of the oldest in the country. She founded in 1083 by the Byzantine military commander of Georgian origin, Grigorii Bakuriani. Belocherkovsky monastery became one of the many small Orthodox monasteries built in those years near the village of Byala. Patrons of the monastery in the Middle Ages were the holy healers Cosmas and Damian.

It was probably due to its location high in the mountains the monastery remained intact during the Ottoman invasion in the late XIVveka. About a century after the final conquest of the Balkans Ottoman Empire started mass forced Islamization of the Bulgarian population. In the second half of the 17th century in the valley Chepino Belocherkovsky monastery was completely destroyed, and the village was renamed Byala Chepino.

Only in 1815 it was restored monastery church and later - in 1883 - and she abode, named in honor of Saints Peter and Paul. The new church was built on the ruins of the destroyed. This single-nave building without a dome cross-shaped, with one apse and two conch. Initially, he was decorated with wall paintings. The church is entirely built of white stone, hence the name of the nearby countryside - Belocherkovskaya. Initially, the temple was not painted, it was decorated with frescoes in the 1979-1981 biennium only. It contains the most beautiful icon of St. Nicholas unknown master.