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SVETI SEDMOCHISLENITSI CHURCH

The Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church is a Bulgarian Orthodox church in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Set in a leafy garden, this church dedicated to Sts Cyril and Methodius and their five disciples was originally built as a mosque in 1528; it later became an arms depot and a prison. Before the mosque at the same place there did exist a nunnery of the Rila Monastery and an Early Christian temple from the 4th-5th century, the ruins of which were excavated in 1901.  It became consecrated as a church on 27th of July 1903.

Cyril and Methodius and their five disciples, known in the Orthodox Church collectively as the Sedmochislenitsi ( The 7 Saints).

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