Seslavtsi monastery of St Nicholas the Miracle-Maker
Seventeenth-century monastery church with unrestored frescoes and an early painted group of Bulgarian saints.
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This guide to the Seslavtsi Monastery of St Nicholas, on the outskirts of Sofia, follows Pimen of Zograph, a monk of Mount Athos remembered as a builder and painter of churches, and the calling that sent him north. It reaches the walls he and his students painted in the early seventeenth century, and the narthex where four Bulgarian saints stand together. Best heard inside the church, looking up at the scenes of Christ.
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