Buzludzha monument

Buzludzha monument

Паметник на Бузлуджа
42°44′N 25°23′E / 42.733°N 25.383°E / 42.733; 25.383
Location	Buzludzha Peak, Bulgaria
Designer	Georgi Stoilov
Material	concrete, steel, glass
Height	70 metres (230 ft)
Beginning date	1974
Completion date	1981
Opening date	23 August 1981

The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party (Bulgarian: Дом паметник на БКП, romanized: Dom pametnik na BKP), also known as the Buzludzha Monument (/ˈbʊzlʊdʒə/), was built on Buzludzha Peak in central Bulgaria by the Bulgarian communist government and inaugurated in 1981. It commemorated the events of 1891, when a group of socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev assembled secretly in the area to form an organized socialist movement that led to the founding of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, a forerunner of the Bulgarian Communist Party (itself a forerunner of the current Bulgarian Socialist Party).