CULT COMPLEX IN THE MOGILATA LOCALITY IN SMOLYAN (Damyan Damyanov – dam_sm@mail.bg, Nikolai Boyadzhiev) The site was investigated in the period 2000 – 2004. It is situated in the Mogilata locality, within the town, and covers c. 1600 sq. m. Most of the buildings were badly destroyed and only their foundations have been preserved. In the 5th – 6th centuries AD, the site was occupied by a Christian monastery, consisting of a church, residential building, service premises and precincts. The church was a basilica (19,50 by 12,50 m) with a short nave and side-aisles and a three-sided apse. It has a narthex and rooms to the North. The basilica existed as a self-contained building until the 14th century. The residential building (20 by 15,40 m) is situated to the North of the basilica; its ground floor consists of an entrance-hall, kitchen, basement, inner courtyard, and two ovens. The earliest finds on the site are sherds dating to the Late Bronze Age (16th – 11th century BC). The pottery from the Iron Age (1st millennium BC) is more numerous than the Late Bronze Age ceramics. During the 1st – 4th centuries AD, a cult complex, consisting of secular building to the North and a temple to the South, existed on the site. These architectural constructions were succeeded by the buildings of the monastery, which followed the earlier orientation of the buildings, leading to the absence of right angles and the asymmetrical axis of the basilica. The building materials used in all constructions during the entire period of occupation were broken stones, slabs, blocks, and earth mortar. The width of the walls of the church and the residential building varies between 55 cm and 70 cm, which testifies to wooden roofing.