Orthodox temple of Saint Paraskeva
Neo-Byzantine church with a pillarless round nave over twenty metres wide and carved iconostasis.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Church of Saint Paraskeva in Sofia follows one man, the Stuttgart-trained architect Anton Tornyov, and a design competition he won in nineteen ten for a church that wars then kept from rising. It touches the Balkan Wars, the First World War and a board of trustees that started over. Best heard first on Rakovski Street, then under the dome of the round nave.
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