Cathedral Saint Nedelia
Domed Orthodox cathedral rebuilt after a 1925 bombing, keeping its surviving gilded iconostasis.
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This guide to the Cathedral of Saint Nedelya in Sofia turns on the spring of nineteen twenty-five, and on a sexton, the man who looked after the building, recruited by the Communist Party's secret military wing. It follows the funeral of a murdered general on Holy Thursday, and the government ministers who came to mourn him. Best heard standing in the nave, looking up at the columns beneath the main dome.
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