SVETI SEDMOCHISLENITSI CHURCH
ul. “Graf Ignatiev” 25,
1000 Sofia Center,
Sofia, Bulgaria
ul. “Graf Ignatiev” 25,
1000 Sofia Center,
Sofia, Bulgaria
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.