Alexander Nevsky Crypt Icon museum
Cathedral crypt museum of Orthodox icons, fresco fragments and church plate from the fourth century on.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Alexander Nevsky Crypt Icon Museum in Sofia is about the room you are standing in: a vaulted basement beneath the cathedral, designed for one purpose and put to another. It follows the cathedral overhead from its eighteen eighty-two foundation stone, and the marble, onyx, mosaics and gates shipped in from across Europe to finish it. Best heard just inside the crypt, before you start along the walls.
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