The most visited historical site in Bulgaria, the Tsarevets Fortress in the town of Veliko Tarnovo, will again welcome tourists on the first day of 2021 . The first visitor will be officially welcomed at exactly 12 o'clock at noon and he or she will..
Services will be held at the Nativity church and the St. Ivan (John) of Rila in Sofia today for the health of all people with coronavirus. After that, priests from Sofia, who have contracted and recovered from coronavirus, will enter Covid-wards in..
On November 3, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of Saint Pimen Zografski. On this occasion, November 3 is celebrated as a day of Bulgarian artists, icon painters and restorers. The Venerable Pimen Zografski was born in Sofia and..
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has universal value. It must continue to represent the diversity of religious, cultural and historical heritage . We will do everything possible to preserve the Christian symbols in the temple so its conversion into a mosque..
On this day - 51 days after Easter, the Orthodox Church celebrates Whit Monday or Monday of the Holy Spirit. Every year the feast of the Holy Spirit is marked on Monday and is connected in meaning with the celebration of the previous day - Pentecost. On..
The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church announced that on Good Friday believers who go to church must not kiss or touch the Epitaphios ( Plashtanitsa) . They must not crawl under it, nor lay flowers and geranium, but should only make the..
On November 23, the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Sofia marks its inauguration anniversary. It coincides with the day of the Assumption of Pious Prince St. Alexander Nevsky, patron of the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish War of..
An unknown church, which has not been mentioned in the plans of the medieval town of Cherven in today's Rousse region, has been discovered by archaeologists from the Regional Museum of History in Rousse. The church dates back to the 14th..
