Church “St. Nicholas of Sofia”
Orthodox church consecrated in 1900, with a finely carved iconostasis and walls covered in murals.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Church of St. Nicholas of Sofia, on Pirotska Street in Sofia, opens on a December morning in nineteen hundred, when a church board's careful guest list met the city that actually showed up. It follows the people who made the building and filled it over the years: an architect, two woodcarving brothers, a pair of icon painters and a Russian muralist remembered by surname alone. Best heard standing in the nave, facing the carved iconostasis.
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