It has an ethnographic museum, an art gallery and a number of churches and chapels (24 in the village and the vicinity), the most famous of which is the SS.

Local children can attend classes until the 8th grade, after which most of them continue their education in the nearby town Smolyan.

A number of educational activities and concerts are organized by the local culture centre - 'chitalishte Svetlina' - on a regular basis.

It is thought that it was founded by exiles from Raykovo (now part of Smolyan) that sought to escape forcible conversion to Islam by the Ottomans.

The present village is named after Momchil Voyvoda, a medieval fighter against the Ottoman invasion that had a fortress in the area.