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The Church of Saint George (Bulgarian: Ротонда „Свети Георги“, romanized: Rotonda "Sveti Georgi") is a Late Antique red brick rotunda in Sofia, Bulgaria. Built in the early 4th century as Roman baths , it became a church inside the walls of Serdica, capital of ancient Dacia Mediterranea during the Roman Empire and ...
'Church of Holy Wisdom') is the oldest church in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, dating to the fourth century. In the predecessor building took place the Council of Serdica held most probably in 343 and attended by 316 bishops. In the 14th century, the church gave its name to the city, previously known as Serdika (Сердика).
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has its origin in the flourishing Christian communities and churches established in Southeast Europe as early as the first centuries of the Christian era. Christianity was brought to the Thracian lands by the apostles Paul and Andrew in the 1st century AD, when the first organised Christian communities were formed ...
The Church of Saint George in Sofia is the oldest church in Bulgaria. Members of the Universal White Brotherhood, a Hermetic/Theosophical religious organisation founded in Bulgaria itself, practising paneurhythmy at the Seven Rila Lakes.
It is the largest late antique early-Christian church discovered in Bulgaria and one of the largest from that period on the Balkans. [2] [3] Its architecture included a central and two side naves, an apse, a narthex (anteroom), and a colonnaded atrium (inner court).
The Boyana Church was built in three stages: in the late 10th to early 11th, the mid-13th, and the mid-19th centuries. The oldest section (the eastern church) is a small one-apse cross-vaulted church with inbuilt cruciform supports. It was built in the late 10th or the early 11th century.
In 1976 St. Athanasius Church was declared a monument of culture of historical and architectural significance. [6] The temple is considered the only surviving semi dug-in church in Northeastern Bulgaria and the oldest Christian Orthodox place of worship preserved in the region of Razgrad. [5]
View of the church entrance. The Church of St Constantine and Helena (Bulgarian: Св. Св. Константин и Елена) is a church in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It is considered to be among the oldest churches in the city. It was built in 337 at the sight of an ancient pagan temple in the acropolis on one of the fortified hills.