The Chelopech is a mountain settlement located in South-West Bulgaria in Sofia District. The village is also a municipality (there are no other settlements in Chelopech Municipality). The relief and the climate are suitable for tourism (there is a well-equipped chalet Mourgana, built under the Balkan summit of the same name) but it is not developed because there is situated the biggest gold copper mine in Europe (West from the village). The history of Chelopech dates back to antiquity, as the remains discovered on the territory of Chelopech testify. The first monastery school in Chelopech was founded in 1825 in the cloister of the Rila Monastery. The municipality`s temple - the Church of St. Nicolas the Wonder-Doer - was built in 1853.