Saint Alexander Nevsky Square
Broad public square around a domed cathedral, packed for the Easter midnight service.
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This guide to Saint Alexander Nevsky Square in Sofia stands you where the Bulgarian Orthodox patriarch faces the crowd at midnight on Easter, at the end of the long Lenten fast. It follows the night from the candles around the cathedral to the tables of Sofia's families, with red eggs, braided kozunak and the old meaning folded into each. Best heard on the square in front of the cathedral's main doors.
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